Lure
[l(j)ʊə] or [lʊr]
Definition
(noun.) qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward.
Typist: Tabitha--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; -- used by falconers in recalling hawks.
(n.) Any enticement; that which invites by the prospect of advantage or pleasure; a decoy.
(n.) A velvet smoothing brush.
(n.) To draw to the lure; hence, to allure or invite by means of anything that promises pleasure or advantage; to entice; to attract.
(v. i.) To recall a hawk or other animal.
Typed by Anatole
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Enticement, bait, attraction, allurement, decoy, temptation.
v. a. Entice, allure, attract, decoy, tempt, seduce, inveigle, lead by the nose.
Edited by Julia
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Allurement,[See ATTRACTION]
Typist: Pansy
Definition
n. a trumpet with long curved tube used for calling cattle &c.
n. any enticement: bait: decoy: (Shak.) a stuffed bird used in falconry for training the hawk.—v.t. to entice: decoy.
Checker: Susie
Examples
- Veneering has been in their confidence throughout, and has done much to lure them to the altar. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Now, _do not_ let them lure you to the hustings, my dear Mr. Brooke. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Never fear that I wish to lure you into error--to make you my mistress. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I see a preternatural lure in its wily glance. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- So Andros dared to use this as a lure! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The male stepped forward, fixing his eyes on me: I drew near, still holding out my lure, while he, depressing his head, rushed at me with his horns. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She lured me to leave this den and follow her forth into dew, coolness, and glory. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In the meantime the young physician’s apprentice had been lured away from Penzance. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He lured you to Melnos for a purpose, but he did not count on my presence. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- She had been sorry that an expression of any other feeling than friendship had been lured out by circumstances from Henry Lennox. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- She treated me as a boy still, but she lured me on. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Have I lured George from his happy home to expose him to this! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But, his long-cherished desire to know more about these matters, not only stopped him in his running away, but lured him back again. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Perhaps some unknown woman, far beneath herself in culture, was by the most subtle of lures sealing his fate this very instant. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Here had been several lures thrown out, and neither of them had uttered a word. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- My friend the law-stationer's good lady, over there, says Mr. Bucket, luring Mrs. Snagsby forward with the finger. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Caliphronas had come to England with the deliberate intention of luring him to Melnos; but what was his reason for this strange conduct? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Typed by Amalia