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Combined or impregnated with tellurium; tellurized. [Written also telluretted.] [Obsoles.] Tellureted hydrogen (Chem.), hydrogen telluride, H2Te, a gaseous substance analogous to hydrogen sulphide; -- called also tellurhydric acid.

A short tubular opening at the top of a retort, or at the top or side of a bottle; a tubulation.

Value. [Obs.] Ld. Berners.

Velvet. [Obs.] "A woman's crupper of velure." Shak.

turity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt. proved an abortiori.

Gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share. Wharton. Kent.

y to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.

Failure of the due secretion of milk after childbirth.

To allure; to entice. [Obs.]

Enticement; allurement. [Obs.] Bailey.

Allurement. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Allurement. [R.]

That allures; attracting; charming; tempting. -- Al*lur"ing*ly, adv. -- Al*lur"ing*ness, n.

To dismay; to dishearten; to daunt. [Obs. or Archaic] The Silures, to amate the new general, rumored the overthrow greater than was true. Milton.

To try to gain by some insinuating artifice; to allure. [Obs.] "He angled the people's hearts." Sir P. Sidney.

a moral or emotional kind; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure; as, to attract admirers. Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze. Milton.

That which attracts or draws; an attraction; an allurement. Speaks nothing but attractives and invitation. South.

p and playing with the dummy for that deal, there being heavy penalties for a player's failure to make good his bid. The score value of each trick more than six taken by the successful bidder is as follows: when the trump is spades, 2; clubs, 6; diamonds, 7; hearts, 8; royal spades (lilies), 9; and when the deal is pla…

Anything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse. [Scot.]

Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation. Fairfax.