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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



... He was absorbed in vindictive feeling, which applied to her also. He might say for form's sake that she had meant well; but in fact he regarded her at this moment as a sort of odious Canidia whose one function had been to lure Louis to misfortune. Cut off himself, by half a score of peculiarities, physical and other, from love, pleasure, and power, Anthony Craven's whole affections and ambitions had for years centred in his brother. And now Louis was not only violently thrown out of ...
— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... back to his house from a grim conference on exactly the subject of how to make preparations against any possible sabotage incidents—and ran into a proposal to stimulate them! He practically exploded. Even if provocation should be given to saboteurs to lure them into showing their hands, this was no time for it! And if it were, it would be security business. It should not be ...
— Space Platform • Murray Leinster
... rested on her features and caught the full nobility of their expression and the lurking sweetness underlying her every look. She herself made the charm and whether placed high or placed low, must ever attract the eye and afterwards lure the heart, by an individuality which hardly needed perfect features in which ...
— Initials Only • Anna Katharine Green
... grafting knife. It matters not how many of the minor arts the youth acquires. The more the merrier. Let each one gain the most he can in all such ways; for arts like these bring no harm in their train; quite otherwise, they lure good ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 • Various
... of Lop-Ear, the warm lure of the Swift One, the lust and the atavism of Red-Eye? A screaming incoherence and no more. And a screaming incoherence, likewise, the doings of the Fire People and the Tree People, and the gibbering councils ...
— Before Adam • Jack London


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