▪ I. flurr, n. rare.
[f. next vb.]
Flutter, whirr.
| 1651 H. 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.
| 1627–77 Feltham Resolves ii. xxix. 218 Choler is as dust flur'd up into the eyes of Reason. 1813 Hogg 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.
| 1681 Glanvill Sadducismus ii. (ed. 2) 169 A Bird, that would flurr near to her face. 1824 New Monthly Mag. X. 322, I saw one [cuckoo]..flurr awkwardly away across the meadow. 1825 Hogg Queen Hynde 329 On the spray, that flurr'd and gleam'd A thousand little rainbows beam'd. |
▪ III. flurr(e
obs. f. fleer.