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.] 1. To lie hidden; to lie in wait.
Like wild beasts, lurking in loathsome den. --Spenser.
Let us . . . lurk privily for the innocent. --Prov. i. 11.
2. To keep out of sight.
The defendant lurks and wanders about in Berks. --Blackstone.
The appeals court said, "While ambiguities as to what conduct constitutes a violation may lurk in the RICO statute, the statute isn't ambiguous as to whether its proscriptions extend to a state-regulated public utility."
Bad loans still lurk in some thrift portfolios.
Other obelisks lie in ruins, toppled by earthquakes or desecrated by conquerors seeking to destroy a mysterious power said to lurk within.
They're one of the thousands of independently produced groups that lurk on the fringes of the music establishment, their music too experimental or just too obscure to win commercial attention.
The states of the region have divergent interests and different political systems. Behind these abstractions lurk more specific anxieties.