Hypertext Webster Gateway: "lurked"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Lurk \Lurk\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lurked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Lurking}.] [OE. lurken, lorken, prob. a dim. from the source
of E. lower to frown. See {Lower}, and cf. {Lurch}, a sudden
roll, {Lurch} to lurk.]
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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