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condition ; to leave without help. A ludicrous phrafe.— 
Have a care how you keep company with thofe that, when 
they find themfelves upon a pinch, will leave their friends 
in the lurch. L' E/lrange. 
But, though thou’rt of a different church, 
I will not leave thee in the lurch. Hudibras. 
To LURCH, v. n. To ihift; to play tricks.—I myfelf, 
fometimes leaving goodnefs on my left hand, and hiding 
mine honour in my necefTity, am fain to fhuffle, to hedge, 
and to lurch. Shakefpearc, —To lie in wait : we now rathei 
ufe lurk. —While the one was upon wing, the other flood 
lurching upon the ground, and flew away with the fiih. 
L'Ejhange. 
To LURCH, v. a. [lurcor, Lat.] To devour ; to fwal- 
low greedily.—Too far off from great cities may hinder 
bufinefs ; or too.near lurcheth all provifions, and maketh 
every thing dear. Bacon. —To defeat; to d.ifappoint. A 
word now ufed only in burlefque ; [from the game lurch.] 
—God never deligned the ufe of them to be continual ; 
by putting fuch an emptinefs in them, as fliould fo quickly 
fail and lurch the expectation. South. 
He waxed like a lea ; 
And, in the brunt of feventeen battle* fince, 
He lurcht all fwords o’ the’ garland. Shakefpearc. 
To fteal privily ; to filch ; to pilfer.—At cribbage, to get 
the game on the adverfary before he has counted forty- 
five. in which cafe he lofes a double flake. 
LUR'CHER, / One that watches to fteal, or to betray 
or entrap: 
His thefts fome tradefman fpies. 
Swift from his play the feudding lurcher flies; 
Whilft ev’ry honeft tongue Stop thief refounds. Gay. 
A dog that watches for his game.—I cannot reprefent 
thofe worthies more naturally than under the fliadow of a 
pack of dogs, made up of finders, lurchers, and fetters. 
Tatlcr.-r-\_Lurco, Lat.] A glutton; a gormandizer. Not 
ufed. 
LUR'CHING,/. The aft of beating the adverfary be¬ 
fore he has counted forty-five ; the aft of leaving in a 
ftate of embarrafiment. 
LUR'CY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Allier : feven miles eaft-north-eaft of Dunjon. 
LUR'CY LE'VY, a town of France, in the department 
of the Allier: nine miles north-north-eaft of Cerilly, and 
nine north-north-weft of Bourbon TArchambault. 
LUR'DANE. See Lordane. 
LURE,/, [from allure.] Any enticement; any thing 
that promifes advantage.—A great eftate to an heir, is a 
lure to all the birds of prey round about to feize on him. 
Bacon. 
How many have with a fmile made fmall account 
Of beauty and her lures, eafily fcorn’d 
All her afiaults, on Worthier things intent ? Milton. 
In falconry, a piece of red leather cut in form of a bird, 
with two wdngs (luck with feathers, and fometimes baited 
with a piece of flefli; wherewith to reclaim, or call back, 
a hawk. The word comes from the French learre, which 
lignifi.es the fame; formed, according to Skinner, from 
the Anglo-Saxon, Itsura, traitor; or, according to Tri- 
psiud, from leora, craftinefs.—'This lure (lie calf abroad, 
thinking that this fame and belief would draw, at one 
time or other, fome birds to ftnke upon it. Bacon s Hen¬ 
ry VII. 
My faulcon now is fharp and palling etypty. 
And, till fhe ftoop, he mult not be lull gorg’d, 
For then fhe never looks upon her lure. Shakefpeare. 
To LURE, v. n. To call hawks.—Standing near one 
that lured loud and fliriH, I had fuddenly an offence, as if 
{bmewhat had broken, or been diflocated, in my ear; and 
imuiediately after a loud ringing. Bacon. 
L U S 
To LURE, v. a. To attraft ; to entice; to draw.— A mat 
[pent one day in labour, that he might pafs the other 
ateafe; and, lured on by the pleafure of this bait, when he 
was in vigour he would provide for as many days as he 
could. Temple. 
Would you lure 
From his dark haunt, beneath the tangled roots 
Of pendant trees, the monarch of the brook. 
Behoves you then to ply your fineft art. Thomfon. 
LURE, a town of France, and principal place of a dif- 
trift, in the department of the Upper Saone, near the Oug- 
non: three polls north-eaft of Vefoul, and 55J fouth-eaft 
of Paris. Lat.47. 41. N. Ion. 6. 34.. E. 
LURE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Allier: eighteen miles north-weft of Moulins. 
LUR'GAN, a town of Ireland, in the county of Ar¬ 
magh, on the borders of Down. Here is a very large 
weekly market for cambrics and Irifh cloth, manufactured 
in the neighbourhood, to the amount, it is faid, of 270,0001. 
a year. It is fourteen miles north-eaft of Armagh, and 
fixty-eight north of Antrim. 
LUR'GAN, a townfhip of America, in Franklin county, 
Pennfylvania ; containing 758 inhabitants. 
LUR'GAN GREE'N, a fmall poll-town of the county 
of Louth, Ireland, plealantly Gtuated on Dundalk-bay. It 
is on the great northern road, thirty-feven miles north 
from Dublin. 
LUR'GERSHALL, a village near Blackdown Beacoa 
in Suffex. 
LUR'GERSH ALL, in Wiltfhire. See Luggershall, 
p. 762. '• 
LU'RID, adj. \_luridus, Lat.] Gloomy ; difinal. Not 
ufed: 
Slow fettling o’er the lurid grove, 
Unufual darknefs broods. Thomfon's Summer. 
LU'RID JE,f. [from luridus, Lat. pale, livid,orghaftly, 
alluding to the livid and bluifh afpeft frequent in the 
tribe of plants thus denominated, which feems to announce 
fiieir deadly effefts on animal life.] In botany, the 28th 
natural order among the Fragmenta of Linnaeus. See 
the article Botany, vol. iii. p. 296. The true lurida 
have commonly a fetid herbage, though fometimes a fweet- 
fmelling flower. They .aft powerfully upon the nerves, 
in whatever manner they are taken inwardly ; and prove, 
under careful management, in fome cafes, very valuable 
medicines, though naturally violent poifons. 
LURIGAN'CHE, a town of Peru, in the jurifdiftio* 
of Lima. * 
LU'RIN, a town of Peru, in the jurifdiftion of Lima. 
LU'RING, f. The aft of enticing. 
To LURK, v. n. [probably lurch and lurk are the fame 
word.]—To lie in wait; to lie hidden ; to lie clofe.—Mil- 
brook lurketh between two hills, a village of fome eighty 
houfes, and borrowing his name from a mill and little 
brook running therethrough. Carew's Survey of Cornwall. 
The wife, when danger or diflionour lurks , 
Safeft and feemlielt by her hufband ftays. Milton. 
LUR'KER,/. A thief thatl^es in wait. 
LURKIAN', a town of Periia, in the province of Chu- 
fiftan : fifty miles north of Suiter, and 155 weft of Ifpahan. 
LUR'KlNG,/. The aft of lying in wait. 
LUR'KING-PLACE, f. Hiding-place; fecret place.— 
Take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hideth 
him felt'. 1 Sam. xxiii. 23. 
LURS, a town of France, in the department of the 
Lower Alps : four miles north-eaft of Forcalquier, and 
fifteen fouth-weft of Digne. 
LU'RY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Cher, fituated on the river Anion : five miles .fouth of 
Vierzon, and thirteen weft of Bourges. 
LU'RY, or Luri, a town of the ifland of Corfica, thir¬ 
teen miles north of Baftia. 
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