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

Enticement; allurement. [Obs.] Bailey.

Allurement. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Allurement. [R.]

Allurement. [R.] Hayward.

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

tion or kindness, and tending to win the heart; soft words and artful caresses; cajolery; allurement. Cowering low with blandishment. Milton. Attacked by royal smiles, by female blandishments. Macaulay.

That which seduces; seduction; allurement. Not the bribes of sordid wealth can seduce to leave these everAkenside.

Worldly things, as opposed to spiritual things; the pursuits, interests, and allurements of this life. Our weary souls by earth beguiled. Keble.

That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; alluring object; as, an enticement to sin.

pture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout. Hook him, my poor dear, . . . at any sacrifice. W. Collins.

Allurement. [R.] T. Brown.

The act of baiting; allurement. [Obs.] Hallywell.

Allurement; enticement. [R.] She gives the leer of invitation. Shak.

Something set, or offered to view, as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool pigeon. [Obs.] Still, as he went, he crafty stales did lay. Spenser.

That which tempts; an inducement; an allurement, especially to something evil. Dare to be great, without a guilty crown; View it, and lay the bright temptation down. Dryden.

That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement. [Obs.] "Now to my charms, and to my wily trains." Milton.

tagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement. Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Eph. vi. 11. Not more almighty to resist our might, Than wise to frustrate all our plots and wiles. Milton.…