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▪ I. lurking, vbl. n.|ˈlɜːkɪŋ|
[f. lurk v.]
1. The action of lurk v.; a hiding or lying concealed.
1563Homilies ii. Idleness (1859) 518 If we give ourselves to idleness and sloth, to lurking and loitering. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1360/1 She hath caused some of these..sowers of rebellion, to be discouered for all their secret lurkings. 1677Temple Ess. Gout Wks. 1731 I. 137 The Approaches or Lurkings of the Gout..may indispose Men to Thought and to Care. 1713Addison Guardian No. 71 ⁋5 By the wanderings, roarings, and lurkings of his lions, he knew the way to every man breathing. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. II. 98 Who knew every suspicious character, and..all his lurkings. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvii. IV. 31 After about three years of wandering and lurking he..made his peace with the government.
2. Thieves' slang. Stealing, fraudulent begging.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 250 After a career of incessant ‘lurking’ and deceit. Ibid. 363 Many modes of thieving as well as begging are termed ‘lurking’.
3. attrib., as lurking-corner, lurking-den, lurking-hole, lurking-place.
1545R. Ascham Toxoph. i. (Arb.) 53 When the nyghte and *lurking corners, giueth lesse occasion to vnthriftinesse, than lyght daye.
1573L. Lloyd Marrow of Hist. (1653) 252 The *lurking dens and secret snares of Cupid.
1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 6 The most bolde and aduenterous men, are said, to seeke out the *lurking holes of the Dragon. 1678Locke Let. to Grenville 6 Dec. in Fox Bourne Life (1876) I. vii. 394 No garrisons unreduced, no lurking-holes unsearched. 1772Ann. Reg. 32/2 He was found hid in a chimney, covered with soot; a lurking-hole suited to its inhabitant.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xvii. 12 He nameth their Dennes or privy *lurking-places. 1611Bible Ps. x. 8. He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) III. viii. 238, I was..discovered..and hunted out of my lurking place. 1869Browning Ring & Bk. x. 729 He..hies to the old lurking-place.
▪ II. ˈlurking, ppl. a.
[f. lurk v. + -ing2.]
That lurks; concealed, latent. Also, † skulking, lazy.
c1400Destr. Troy 1001 But a Sourdyng with sourgrem sanke in his hert, And a lourekand lust to Lamydon the kyng. 1570Satir. Poems Reform. xiii. 176 Sa sall we se and heir Quhat lurkand lubers will tak thir Lymmers parts. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 1175, I..foretold The danger, and the lurking Enemie That lay in wait. 1676Grew Anat. Plants iv. ii. (1682) 174 Keeping the Plants warm, and thereby enticing the young lurking Flowers to come abroad. 1705Stanhope Paraphr. I. 76 He will disclose many lurking motives. 1743Lond. & Country Brew. ii. (ed. 2) 107 It does..draw forth that lurking, keen, sour Quality that the Wood has imbibed. 1772–84Cook Voy. (1790) IV. 1274 We discovered a lurking rock, in the middle of one of the beds of weeds. 1807–8Wordsworth White Doe vii. 1711 Why tell of mossy rock, or tree, By lurking Dernbrook's pathless side? 1871Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) IV. xvii. 91 And William..may have felt some lurking sympathy for those who had drawn on themselves the censures of the Church.
b. slang. Following the occupation of a ‘lurker’ or begging impostor.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour (1864) I. 263 Among the more famous of the lurking patterers.
Hence ˈlurkingly adv.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Jude 21 That kynde of men shall lurkingly crepe among the flocke of Christyanes. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xviii. 149 Lurkingly, and in covert. 1929R. B. C. Graham Thirty Tales & Sk. 178 They eyed the women just as a starving dog looks at a butcher's shop, sideways and lurkingly. |