[? onomatopœic.]

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  1.  trans. To scatter, throw about; also with up.

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1627–77.  Feltham, Resolves, II. xxix. 218. Choler is as dust flur’d up into the eyes of Reason, that blinds or dazels the sight of the understanding.

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1813.  Hogg, Queen’s Wake, 39.

        The stately ship, adown the bay,
  A corslet framed of heaving snow,
And flurred on high the slender spray,
  Till rainbows gleamed around her prow.

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  2.  intr. To fly up; to fly with whirring or fluttering wings.

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1681.  Glanvill, Sadducismus, II. (ed. 2), 169. She was haunted with a thing in the shape of a Bird, that would flurr near to her face.

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1824.  New Monthly Mag., X. 322. I saw one [a cuckoo] once, for the first time, last May, flutter heavily out of an old hawthorn bush, and flurr awkwardly away across the meadow, as I was listening in rapt attention to its lonely voice.

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1825.  Hogg, Queen Hynde, 329.

        While in the spray, that flurr’d and gleam’d,
A thousand little rainbows beam’d.

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