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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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   But though thou'rt of a different church,
   
   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 (lûrch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lurched (lûrcht); 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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