Part 6701

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.</def>

<h1>Lurk</h1> <Xpage=876>

<hw>Lurk</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Lurked</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Lurking</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>lurken</ets>, <ets>lorken</ets>, prob. a dim. from the source of E. <ets>lower</ets> to frown. See <er>Lower</er>, and cf. <er>Lurch</er>, a sudden roll, <er>Lurch</er> to lurk.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To lie hid; to lie in wait.</def>

<blockquote>Like wild beasts, <b>lurking</b> in loathsome den. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Let us . . . <b>lurk</b> privily for the innocent. <i>Prov. i. 11.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To keep out of sight.</def>

<blockquote>The defendant <b>lurks</b> and wanders about in Berks. <i>Blackstone.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Lurker</h1> <Xpage=876>

<hw>Lurk"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who lurks.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A small fishing boat.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<h1>Lurry</h1> <Xpage=876>

<hw>Lur"ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[W. <ets>llwry</ets> precipitant, a provision.]</ety> <def>A confused heap; a throng, as of persons; a jumble, as of sounds.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>To turn prayer into a kind of <b>lurry</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Luscious</h1> <Xpage=876>

<hw>Lus"cious</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Prob. for <ets>lustious</ets>, fr. <ets>lusty</ets>, or perh. a corruption of <ets>luxurious</ets>. Cf. <er>Lush</er>, <er>Lusty</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich.</def>

<blockquote>And raisins keep their <b>luscious</b>, native taste. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Cloying; fulsome.</def>

<blockquote>He had a tedious, <b>luscious</b> way of talking. <i>Jeffrey.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Gratifying a depraved sense; obscene.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Steele.</i>

-- <wordforms><wf>Lus"cious*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Lus"cious*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Lusern</h1> <Xpage=876>

<hw>Lu"sern</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>loup-cervier</ets>, L. <ets>lupus cervarius</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A lynx. See 1st <er>Lucern</er> and <er>Loup-cervier</er>.</def>

<h1>Lush</h1> <Xpage=876>

<hw>Lush</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Prob. an abbrev. of <ets>lushious</ets>, fr. <ets>luscious</ets>.]</ety> <def>Full of juice or succulence.</def>

<i>Tennyson.</i>

<blockquote>How <b>lush</b> and lusty the grass looks! how green! <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>