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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Lurch \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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Lurch \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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                  But though thou'rt of a different church,
                  I will not leave thee in the lurch. --Hudibras.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Lurch \Lurch\ (l[^u]rch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lurched
     (l[^u]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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Lurch \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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Lurch \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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Lurch \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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