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▪ I. flurr, n. rare. [f. next vb.] Flutter, whirr.
1651H. More Enthus. Triumph. (1656) 208 After the flur and farre flight of every partridge he let out of his basket. ▪ II. flurr, v.|flɜː(r)| [? onomatopœic.] 1. trans. To scatter, throw about; also with up.
1627–77Feltham Resolves ii. xxix. 218 Choler is as dust flur'd up into the eyes of Reason. 1813Hogg Queen's Wake 39 The stately ship..flurred on high the slender spray. 2. intr. To fly up; to fly with whirring or fluttering wings.
1681Glanvill Sadducismus ii. (ed. 2) 169 A Bird, that would flurr near to her face. 1824New Monthly Mag. X. 322, I saw one [cuckoo]..flurr awkwardly away across the meadow. 1825Hogg Queen Hynde 329 On the spray, that flurr'd and gleam'd A thousand little rainbows beam'd. ▪ III. flurr(e obs. f. fleer. |