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Word Meanings - LURK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To lie hid; to lie in wait. Like wild beasts, lurking in loathsome den. Spenser. Let us . . . lurk privily for the innocent. Prov. i. 11. 2. To keep out of sight. The defendant lurks and wanders about in Berks. Blackstone.

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  • ABSCOND
    1. To hide, withdraw, or be concealed. The marmot absconds all winter. Ray. 2. To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor. That very
  • SLINK
    1. To creep away meanly; to steal away; to sneak. "To slink away and hide." Tale of Beryn. Back to the thicket slunk The guilty serpent. Milton. There were some few who slank obliquely from them as they passed. Landor. 2. To miscarry; -- said of
  • SNEAK
    1. To creep or steal privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company. imp. & p. p. "snuck" is more common now, but not even mentioned here. In MW10, simply "sneaked or snuck" You skulked
  • SNEAK CURRENT
    A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.
  • SNEAKING
    Marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and courage; underhand; mean; crouching. -- Sneak"ing*ly, adv. -- Sneak"ing*ness, n.
  • SNEAKY
    Like a sneak; sneaking.
  • ABSCONDENCE
    Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding. Phillips.
  • SKULKINGLY
    In a skulking manner.
  • SNEAKSBY
    A paltry fellow; a sneak. "Such a bashful sneaksby." Barrow.
  • SKULK; SKULKER
    One who, or that which, skulks.
  • SLINKY
    Thin; lank.
  • SNEAKINESS
    The quality of being sneaky.
  • SNEAK-CUP
    One who sneaks from his cups; one who balks his glass. Shak.
  • COWER
    To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear. Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire. Dryden. Like falcons, cowering on the nest. Goldsmith.
  • ABSCONDER
    One who absconds.
  • SKULK
    To hide, or get out of the way, in a sneaking manner; to lie close, or to move in a furtive way; to lurk. "Want skulks in holes and crevices." W. C. Bryant. Discovered and defeated of your prey, You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked
  • SNEAKER
    1. One who sneaks. Lamb. 2. A vessel of drink. A sneaker of five gallons. Spectator.
  • DISLINK
    To unlink; to disunite; to separate. Tennyson.

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