Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Lure   /lʊr/   Listen
noun
Lure  n.  
1.
A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; used by falconers in recalling hawks.
2.
Any enticement; that which invites by the prospect of advantage or pleasure; a decoy.
3.
(Hat Making) A velvet smoothing brush.


verb
Lure  v. t.  (past & past part. lured; pres. part. luring)  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." "And various science lures the learned eye."


Lure  v. i.  To recall a hawk or other animal.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Lure" Quotes from Famous Books



... bowl! though rich and bright, Its rubies flash upon the sight, An adder coils its depths beneath, Whose lure is woe, whose ...
— Elsie's children • Martha Finley
... the opponent in the everlasting conflict. George felt its influence upon himself, upon Lois, upon the whole scene. The eyes of the most feminine women in the world, denying their smiles and their lure, had discovered to him something which marked a definite change in his estimate of certain ultimate ...
— The Roll-Call • Arnold Bennett
... inglorious that enabled them to avoid the need of war. The inheritance of a warlike policy, the consciousness of great military abilities, the cry of his own people for a renewal of the struggle, failed to lure Edward from his system of peace. Henry clung to peace in spite of the threatening growth of the French monarchy: he refused to be drawn into any serious war even by its acquisition of Britanny and of a coast-line that ran unbroken along the Channel. Nor was any ...
— History of the English People, Volume III (of 8) - The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 • John Richard Green
... enchantment it was, with which this woman could lure you after her. But I know that I too have a magic word, which ...
— Debts of Honor • Maurus Jokai
... trap, the pitcher plants, the side saddle plants, the butterworts and bladderworts, and others of their kind, which not only capture insects, often by ingenious and complex lures, but also digest the animal food thus captured? A sundew thus spreads out its lure in the shape of its leaf studded with sensitive tentacles, each capped by a glistening drop of gummy secretion. Entangled in this secretion, the fly is further fixed to the leaf by the tentacles which bend ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 • Various


More quotes...


Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org