Lupus erythematosus is characterized by an eruption of red patches, which become incrusted, leaving
superficial scars. L. vulgaris is marked by the development of nodules which often ulcerate deeply and
produce great deformity. Formerly the latter was often confounded with cancer, and some varieties of
cancer were included under Lupus.
2. (Astron.) The Wolf, a constellation situated south of Scorpio.
Lurcation
(Lur*ca"tion) n. [See its Lurch.] Gluttony; gormandizing. [Obs.]
Lurch
(Lurch) v. i. [L. lurcare, lurcari.] To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
[Obs.]
Too far off from great cities, which may hinder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions,
and maketh everything dear.
Bacon. Lurch
(Lurch), n. [OF. lourche name of a game; as adj., deceived, embarrassed.]
1. An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
2. A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.
Lady —- has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch.
Walpole. To leave one in the lurch. (a) In the game of cribbage, to leave one's adversary so far behind that
the game is won before he has scored thirty-one. (b) To leave one behind; hence, to abandon, or fail to
stand by, a person in a difficulty. Denham.
But though thou'rt of a different church,
I will not leave thee in the lurch.
Hudibras. Lurch
(Lurch), v. t.
1. To leave in the lurch; to cheat. [Obs.]
Never deceive or lurch the sincere communicant.
South. 2. To steal; to rob. [Obs.]
And in the brunt of seventeen battles since
He lurched all swords of the garland.
Shak. Lurch
(Lurch), n. [Cf. W. llerch, llerc, a frisk, a frisking backward or forward, a loitering, a lurking,
a lurking, llercian, llerciaw, to be idle, to frisk; or perh. fr. E. lurch to lurk.] A sudden roll of a ship
to one side, as in heavy weather; hence, a swaying or staggering movement to one side, as that by a
drunken man. Fig.: A sudden and capricious inclination of the mind.
Lurch
(Lurch) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lurched ; p. pr. & vb. n. Lurching.] To roll or sway suddenly to
one side, as a ship or a drunken man.
Lurch
(Lurch), v. i. [A variant of lurk.]
1. To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk. L'Estrange.
2. To dodge; to shift; to play tricks.
I . . . am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch.
Shak. Lurcher
(Lurch"er) n. [See Lurch to lurk.]
