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Lark   /lɑrk/   Listen
Lark

noun
1.
North American songbirds having a yellow breast.  Synonym: meadowlark.
2.
A songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage.  Synonyms: pipit, titlark.
3.
Any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing.
4.
Any carefree episode.  Synonym: escapade.
verb
(past & past part. larked; pres. part. larking)
1.
Play boisterously.  Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport.  "The gamboling lambs in the meadows" , "The toddlers romped in the playroom"



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"Lark" Quotes from Famous Books



... childhood. Harry, with a little trepidation, asked himself whether it was not possible that this rapid initiation into the things of the exterior world would change the maiden he had known and loved hitherto into quite a different girl. As for Jack Ryan, he was as joyous as a lark rising in the first beams of the sun. He only trusted that his gayety would prove contagious, and enliven his traveling companions, thus rewarding them for letting him join them. Nell was pensive ...
— The Underground City • Jules Verne
... with him every step. The tide was again falling, and the sea shone and sparkled and danced with life, and the wet sand gleamed, and a soft air blew on her cheek, and the lordly sun was mounting higher and higher, and a lark over her head was sacrificing all Nature in his song; and it seemed as if Malcolm were still speaking strange, half-intelligible, altogether lovely things in her ears. She felt a little weary, and laid her head down upon her arm to listen more at ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 • Various
... what is commonly known as a "good boy;" he was as fond of a lark as any right-minded youngster need be; but he had been taught at home that any one who intended to become a soldier should first learn to obey, and to respect the authority of those set over him. He did not like plunging into rows for the sake of being disorderly; and ...
— Soldiers of the Queen • Harold Avery
... was that the Roman rose. Not that the earliest lark rises so early in Latium as the earliest lark in England; that is, during summer: but then, on the other hand, neither does it ever rise so late. The Roman citizen was stirring with the dawn—which, allowing ...
— Miscellaneous Essays • Thomas de Quincey
... excursion developed itself on the steamboat, but it had so few of the bustling features of an American excursion that I thought it might be a pilgrimage. Yet it doubtless was a highly developed provincial lark. For a certain portion of the passengers had the unmistakable excursion air: the half-jocular manner towards each other, the local facetiousness which is so offensive to uninterested fellow-travelers, that male obsequiousness about ladies' shawls and reticules, the ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner


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