What does "flurry" mean?
Flurry: A light shower or snowfall accompanied with wind. Like a flurry of snow on the whistling wind. Longfellow.
Additional senses
- 2.Violent agitation; commotion; bustle; hurry. The racket and flurry of London. Blakw. Mag.
- 3.The violent spasms of a dying whale.
- 4.To put in a state of agitation; to excite or alarm. H. Swinburne.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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