noun. Any of various birds of the family Alaudidae, found almost worldwide and having a melodious song, especially the skylark.

noun. Any of several similar birds, such as the meadowlark.

noun. A carefree or spirited adventure.

noun. A harmless prank.

intransitive verb. To engage in spirited fun or merry pranks.

To catch or hunt larks.

noun. A small oscine passerine bird of the family Alaudidæ.

noun. A bird like or likened to a lark, but not one of the Alaudidæ: with a distinguishing prefix: as, the titlark, meadow-lark, bunting-lark, bushlark, horse-lark, etc. Such birds are chiefly the titlarks or pipits (see Anthus), and various kinds of finches and buntings.

noun. A kind of sandpiper.

To frolic; make sport; do anything in a sportive haphazard way.

noun. A merry or hilarious adventure; a jovial prank or frolic; sport: as, to go on a lark.

noun. A frolic; a jolly time.

noun. Any one numerous species of singing birds of the genus Alauda and allied genera (family Alaudidæ). They mostly belong to Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. In America they are represented by the shore larks, or horned larks, of the genus Otocoris. The true larks have holaspidean tarsi, very long hind claws, and, usually, dull, sandy brown colors.

noun. a fringilline bird (Calamospiza melanocorys) found on the plains of the Western United States.

noun. a sparrow (Chondestes grammacus), found in the Mississippi Valley and the Western United States.

intransitive verb. To catch larks.

intransitive verb. To sport; to frolic.

noun. A romp, frolic, some fun.

noun. A prank.

verb. To sport, engage in harmless pranking.

verb. To frolic, engage in carefree adventure.

noun. Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.

noun. Any of various similar-appearing birds, but usually ground-living, such as the meadowlark and titlark.

noun. One who wakes early; one who is up with the larks.

verb. To catch larks.

noun. any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing

verb. play boisterously

noun. any carefree episode

noun. North American songbirds having a yellow breast

noun. a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage

""I've suffered mor'n once from raids on my orchards and chicken coops, and found it was some town boys, off on what they called a lark, that made other people suffer.""

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