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, Consisting of quirks; resembling a quirk. Barrow.

Full of quirks; tricky; as, a quirky lawyer.

Any small holothurian resembling in form a gherkin.

obtain by mean solicitation. You that never heard the call of any vocation, . . . that shirk living from others, but time from Yourselves. Bp. Rainbow.

One who shirks. Macaulay.

Disposed to shirk. [Colloq.]

Any one of several species of Asiatic cuckoos of the genus Taccocua, as the Bengal sirkeer (T. sirkee).

A forced or affected smile; a simper. The bride, all smirk and blush, had just entered. Sir W. Scott.

With smirking; with a smirk.

Smirk; smirking.

The planking from the waterways up to the port sills. Totten.

A kind of neckcloth worn in a loose and disorderly fashion.

Same as Steenkirk.

A young bullock or heifer. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk. [Obs. or Obsolescent] By reason of the contagion then in London, we balked the Evelyn. Sick he is, and keeps his bed, and balks his meat. Bp. Hall. Nor doth he any creature balk, But lays on all he meeteth. Drayton.

To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question.

Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy. She is an irksome brawling scold. Shak.

weapon used for stabbing. This is the general term: cf. Poniard, Stiletto, Bowie knife, Dirk, Misericorde, Anlace.

forts; -- often used with out; as, to ferret out a secret. Master Fer! I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him. Shak.

To fail in; to shirk, as a task or duty. [Colloq. U.S.]