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Allurement. [R.]

o invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract. With promised joys allured them on. Falconer. The golden sun in splendor likest Heaven Allured his eye. Milton.

The act alluring; temptation; enticement. Though Adam by his wife's allurement fell. Milton.

One who, or that which, allures.

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

A figurative or symbolical reference. [Obs.]

Having reference to something not fully expressed; containing an allusion.

Figuratively [Obs.]; by way of allusion; by implication, suggestion, or insinuation.

The quality of being allusive.

Allusive. [R.] Warburton.

Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.

Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium. The golden alluvions are there [in California and Australia] spread over a far wider space: they are found not only on the banks of rivers, and in their beds, but are scattered over the surface of vast plains. R. Cobden.

Alluvial. [R.] Johnson.

Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Lyell.

Everywhere. [Archaic]

Domestic or other work of all kinds; as, a maid of allwork, that is, a general servant.

ague, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with. O chief! in blood, and now in arms allied. Pope.

An organic radical, C3H5, existing especially in oils of garlic and mustard.

A gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H4, homologous with acetylene; propine. CH3.C.CH

In an abnormal manner; irregularly. Darwin.