Crossword clues for lurking
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lurk \Lurk\ (l[^u]rk), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lurked (l[^u]rkt); 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.]
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To lie hidden; to lie in wait.
Like wild beasts, lurking in loathsome den.
--Spenser.Let us . . . lurk privily for the innocent.
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To keep out of sight.
The defendant lurks and wanders about in Berks.
--Blackstone.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who lurks. vb. (present participle of lurk English)
WordNet
adj. concealed and unsuspected; "lurking dangers"; "search for lurking ambiguities"
marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a lurking prowler"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch"; "someone skulking in the shadows" [syn: furtive, skulking, sneak(a), sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious]
Usage examples of "lurking".
Shamesey camp, Ancel Harper recognized the threat lurking about the edges of the message.
Just, Asey thought, as if she had no business being in the kitchen, and rather suspected a King Cobra to be lurking in a corner, to boot.
An hour or so later, during one of the brief adjournments, a pock-faced cniht summoned the atheling to his father, who had gone outside for some air and was now lurking in a shadowy corner near the kitchens.
They could see no sign of trouble, but the Birder assured them there were small groups of ill doers lurking just out of sight.
Twice during the night he awoke to the feeling of a lurking presence somewhere close byas if someone were prowling around outside.
Was Cailleach changing her voice, deliberately, to fool some lurking fairies or trolls?
Though the peaks and high valleys still wore their smooth mantles of white, spring was lurking in the Carag Huim.
Saturday and Saturday night came and passed, and Alfred Stevens did not appear, a lurking dread that would not be chidden or kept down, continued to rise within her soul, which, without assuming any real form or decisive speech, was yet suggestive of complete overthrow and ruin.
Either Dou fixed the electrical panel and the other fifty things that had exploded into flames when the American torpedo had hit, or they would remain dead in the water, easy prey for an American torpedo from another of their lurking submarines, or even from an over-the-horizon cruise missile.
Starwick gravely, but there was now lurking in his voice an indefinable drollery of humour.
Killer Durgan looked sharply at him, the cold sneer lurking at his mouth corners.
We will have foes enough from the Expansionist forces to keep us busy without having another one lurking at our backs.
Sometimes he felt as if he toiled in the German salt mines of the soul for no result and that public revels such as May Day stripped away a thin veneer of goodliness to show the evil pits of paganism lurking under the skin of everyday life.
It was impossible not to imagine spooky things lurking beyond the little sliver of illumination, stalking her and Griffon, moving with them and dancing adroitly away when the light happened to swing in their direction.
There were many of the three-foot alligators, lurking hi the pools they themselves seemed to have constructed on the trunks, shells that resembled the cups rubber-workers fasten to the hevea bark as they drain their milky latex.