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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. Piers Plowman. And various science lures the learned eye. Gay.

To attempt to draw; to tempt by a lure or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to 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.

applied to passages of various kinds. The sides of every street were covered with fresh alures of marble. T. Warton.

. Also, a groove around the base of a cartridge, where the extractor takes hold. --Can"ne*lured (#), a.

A hairlike envelope. The nucleus and chevelure of nebulous star. Sir. W. Hershel.

The process of chasing on metals; also, the work thus chased. Weale.

of them passes through the equinoctial points, and hence is denominated the equinoctial colure; the other intersects the equator at the distance of 90º from the former, and is called the solstitial colure. Thrice the equinoctial line He circled; four times crossed the car of night From pole to pole, traversing each col…

A disease affecting grapes, esp. in California, manifested by the premature dropping of the fruit.

Failure. [Obs.] Barrow.

(Paleon.) The reflexed margin of the trilobite carapace.

The neck of horse. R. Browning.

Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.

To deceive; to entice; to lure. [Obs.] The devil insnareth the souls of many men, by illuring them with the muck and dung of this world. Fuller.

A genus of spiral gastropod shells, often of large size, characteristic of the lower Silurian rocks.

A crisp, hard, thin paper, sometimes used for postage stamps.

A fish of the genus Silurus, as the sheatfish; a siluroid.

Stain; pollution. Shak. Then fearing rust or soilure, fashioned for it A case of silk. Tennyson.

A telluride. [Obsoles.]