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"ref": "1956, C. S. Lewis, chapter 16, in The Last Battle, New York: Macmillan",
"text": "The Lion bowed down his head and whispered something to Puzzle [the donkey] at which his long ears went down; but then he said something else at which the ears perked up again.",
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"text": "His ears perked up when he heard there would be ice cream."
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"(intransitive) To become more upright"
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"ref": "1694, Thomas D’Urfey, The Comical History of Don Quixote, London: Samuel Briscoe, Prologue",
"text": "In hopes the coming Scenes your Mirth will raise\nTo you, the Iust pretenders to the Bays;\nThe Poet humbly thus a Reverence pays\nAnd you, the Contraries, that hate the Pains\nOf Labour’d Sense, or of Improving Brains:\nThat feel the Lashes in a well-writ Play,\nHe bids perk up and smile, the Satyr sleeps to Day.",
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"(intransitive) to become more lively or enthusiastic."
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"ref": "1870, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 15, in An Old-Fashioned Girl, Boston: Roberts Brothers, page 309",
"text": "In lifting her arms to perk up the bow at her throat, she knocked a hat off the bracket.",
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"To cause to be more upright, straighten up"
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"(transitive) To cause to be more upright, straighten up"
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"ref": "c. 1612, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Henry VIII, Act II, Scene 3",
"text": "[…] ’tis better to be lowly born,\nAnd range with humble livers in content,\nThan to be perk’d up in a glistering grief,\nAnd wear a golden sorrow.",
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"ref": "1651, Girolamo Preti, translated by Edward Sherburne, Poems and Translations Amorous, Lusory, Morall, Divine, London: Thomas Dring, translation of Salmacis, page 12",
"text": "When this fair Traveller, with heat opprest,\nAnd the days Toyls, here laid him down to rest\nWhere the soft Grass, and the thick Trees, displaid\nA flowry Couch, and a cool Arbour made\nAbout him round the grassy spires (in hope\nTo gain a kisse) their verdant heads perk’d up.",
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"ref": "1963, Zane Grey, chapter 12, in Boulder Dam, Roslyn, New York: Walter J. Black",
"text": "I’ve been on the water wagon myself. But a drink might perk me up.",
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"ref": "1683, John Bunyan, A Case of Conscience Resolved, London: Benjamin Alsop, page 36",
"text": "[…] they should not give heed to Women, that would be perking up in matters of Worshiping God.",
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"ref": "1693, Edmund Bohun, The Justice of Peace, His Calling and Qualifications, London: T. Salusbury, Preface",
"text": "[…] there is too frequently Combinations made amongst the rest, to cross and quash whatever they shall propose, be it never so just, and reasonable, and nothing alledged for it, but that they are mean, proud, busie people, and will perk up too much above their Betters, if they be not thus mortified, and kept under […]",
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"text": "In hopes the coming Scenes your Mirth will raise\nTo you, the Iust pretenders to the Bays;\nThe Poet humbly thus a Reverence pays\nAnd you, the Contraries, that hate the Pains\nOf Labour’d Sense, or of Improving Brains:\nThat feel the Lashes in a well-writ Play,\nHe bids perk up and smile, the Satyr sleeps to Day.",
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"text": "In lifting her arms to perk up the bow at her throat, she knocked a hat off the bracket.",
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"To cause to be more upright, straighten up"
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"(transitive) To cause to be more upright, straighten up"
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"ref": "c. 1612, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Henry VIII, Act II, Scene 3",
"text": "[…] ’tis better to be lowly born,\nAnd range with humble livers in content,\nThan to be perk’d up in a glistering grief,\nAnd wear a golden sorrow.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1651, Girolamo Preti, translated by Edward Sherburne, Poems and Translations Amorous, Lusory, Morall, Divine, London: Thomas Dring, translation of Salmacis, page 12",
"text": "When this fair Traveller, with heat opprest,\nAnd the days Toyls, here laid him down to rest\nWhere the soft Grass, and the thick Trees, displaid\nA flowry Couch, and a cool Arbour made\nAbout him round the grassy spires (in hope\nTo gain a kisse) their verdant heads perk’d up.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1963, Zane Grey, chapter 12, in Boulder Dam, Roslyn, New York: Walter J. Black",
"text": "I’ve been on the water wagon myself. But a drink might perk me up.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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],
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"ref": "1683, John Bunyan, A Case of Conscience Resolved, London: Benjamin Alsop, page 36",
"text": "[…] they should not give heed to Women, that would be perking up in matters of Worshiping God.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1693, Edmund Bohun, The Justice of Peace, His Calling and Qualifications, London: T. Salusbury, Preface",
"text": "[…] there is too frequently Combinations made amongst the rest, to cross and quash whatever they shall propose, be it never so just, and reasonable, and nothing alledged for it, but that they are mean, proud, busie people, and will perk up too much above their Betters, if they be not thus mortified, and kept under […]",
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