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Lure   /lʊr/   Listen
noun
Lure  n.  
1.
A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; used by falconers in recalling hawks.
2.
Any enticement; that which invites by the prospect of advantage or pleasure; a decoy.
3.
(Hat Making) A velvet smoothing brush.


verb
Lure  v. t.  (past & past part. lured; pres. part. luring)  To draw to the lure; hence, to allure or invite by means of anything that promises pleasure or advantage; to entice; to attract. "I am not lured with love." "And various science lures the learned eye."


Lure  v. i.  To recall a hawk or other animal.





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"Lure" Quotes from Famous Books



... cornucopias brimming with sweets, welcomes the messenger whose needle-like bill will carry pollen from flower to flower; presently the coral honeysuckle and the scarlet painted-cup attract him by wearing his favorite color; next the jewel-weed hangs horns of plenty to lure his eye; and the trumpet vine and cardinal flower continue to feed him successively in Nature's garden; albeit cannas, nasturtiums, salvia, gladioli, and such deep, irregular showy flowers in men's flower beds ...
— Wild Flowers Worth Knowing • Neltje Blanchan et al
... king in the South is a bloody, angry, well-armed foe; her king in the North, a proved traitor. Charles Albert has now declared, war because he could not do otherwise; but his sympathies are in fact all against liberty; the splendid lure that he might become king of Italy glitters no more; the Republicans are in the ascendant, and he may well doubt, should the stranger be driven out, whether Piedmont could escape the contagion. Now, his people insisting on war, he has the air of making ...
— At Home And Abroad - Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe • Margaret Fuller Ossoli
... of doubting the probity of Tomaso's brother; of secretly wondering whether the story of the plane might not be a ruse to lure him away from Sinkhole. But then, how would Tomaso or his brother know that Johnny would care anything about whether an airplane "sat" over in Mexico within riding distance of the Border? Johnny did not think of Tex as a possible ...
— Skyrider • B. M. Bower
... (analogous to the Platonic solids of three-dimensional space) are the "fantastic forms" which will prove useful to the artist. He should learn to lure them forth along them axis lines. That is, let him build up his figures, space by space, developing them from lower spaces to higher. But since he cannot enter the fourth dimension, and build them there, nor even the third—if he confines himself to a sheet of paper—he must ...
— Architecture and Democracy • Claude Fayette Bragdon
... the power of the engine he spirals downwards, keenly observing the country below. There are plenty of green fields to lure him, and his great object is to avoid one in which the grass is long, for that would bring his machine to a stop so suddenly as to turn it over; or one of rough surface likely to break the under-carriage. Now is perfect eyesight and a cool head indispensable. ...
— The Aeroplane Speaks - Fifth Edition • H. Barber


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