LURCH
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Lurch (?), v. i. [L. lurcare, lurcari.] To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up. [Obs.]
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Too far off from great cities, which may hinder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear.
Bacon.
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Lurch, n. [OF. lourche name of a game; as adj., deceived, embarrassed.] 1. An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
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2. A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.
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Lady --- has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch.
Walpole.
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To leave one in the lurch. (a) In the game of cribbage, to leave one's adversary so far behind that the game is won before he has scored thirty-one. (b) To leave one behind; hence, to abandon, or fail to stand by, a person in a difficulty. Denham.
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I will not leave thee in the lurch.
Hudibras.
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Lurch, v. t. 1. To leave in the lurch; to cheat. [Obs.]
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Never deceive or lurch the sincere communicant.
South.
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2. To steal; to rob. [Obs.]
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And in the brunt of seventeen battles since
He lurched all swords of the garland.
Shak.
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Lurch, n. [Cf. W. llerch, llerc, a frisk, a frisking backward or forward, a loitering, a lurking, a lurking, llercian, llerciaw, to be idle, to frisk; or perh. fr. E. lurch to lurk.] A sudden roll of a ship to one side, as in heavy weather; hence, a swaying or staggering movement to one side, as that by a drunken man. Fig.: A sudden and capricious inclination of the mind.
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Lurch (l&û;rch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lurched (l&û;rcht); p. pr. & vb. n. Lurching.] To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken man; to move forward while lurching.
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Lurch, v. i. [A variant of lurk.] 1. To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk. L'Estrange.
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2. To dodge; to shift; to play tricks.
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I . . . am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch.
Shak.
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