Definition of Lurks

1. Verb. (third-person singular of lurk) ¹

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Definition of Lurks

1. lurk [v] - See also: lurk

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lurks

luridly
luridness
luridnesses
luring
luringly
lurk
lurked
lurker
lurkers
lurkest
lurketh
lurking
lurking place
lurkingly
lurkings
lurks (current term)
lurries
lurry
lurs
lurv
lurve
lurved
lurvely
lurves
lurving
lusca
lusciously
lusciousness

Literary usage of Lurks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1816)
"... he transported hie troops over the Propon tis, and CHAP. boldly led them against the lurks: in two Moody hat- " ' tit1« thirty thousand of the Moslems ..."

2. Our Old Home, and English Note-books by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1912)
"... for just in the rear of the new-fangled aspect lurks the old arrangement of court-yards, and rustiness, and grimness, that would not be suspected from ..."

3. A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from by Richard Chenevix Trench (1873)
"... hides itself, and so ‘lurks,' for ‘lurk' and ‘lurch' are identical, explains this employment of the word. But ‘to lurch,' generally as an active verb, ..."

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