Lexicographical Neighbors of Lirks
Literary usage of Lirks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"Add; all its body ; the trunk) of it lirks, and it contracte it, ... It is the
Lord we have to do with, who know* how to seek out the lirks of our pretences ..."
2. Isis Unveiled: A Master-key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1892)
"... the heathen may well ask the missionaries what sort of a spirit lirks at the
bottom of the sacrificial beer-bottle. That evangelical New York journal, ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Next call him Neptune : with his trident ie rules the sea ; you see him ride in
Ч : Ind, if provok'd, he soundly lirks his Rebellious wares with rods, ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"Lire, Lythe, c. oatmeal and water mixed smooth to thicken broth with. Lirk, E.
a crease. ' Poo up thy sloe-kins they're o' lirks.' Lirt, E. to push out the ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1881)
"... April I, the first pe*ee; 3, horned lirks; 9, downy woodpecker; 20, white-breasted
swallow, ..."
6. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1887)
"... lirks, and sebaceous glands. The Epidermis or Cuticle (scurf-skin, Fig.
74) is an epithelial structure belonging to the class of stratified epi- thelia. ..."
7. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1907)
"... in Lower Blue lirks (Ky-X IV, 175; in Missouri, V, 43, 52, VI, 36, XI, 211,
263, XII. 212, XVII I, ii, XXVI, 281, 282; in War of 1812-15, XI, 220; ..."
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