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Lure

//lʊə// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun

1
Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure. also, figuratively
"How many have with a smile made small account Of Beauty and her lures"
2
Alternative form of lur. alt-of, alternative
3
something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed wordnet
4
An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
5
qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward wordnet

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6
A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
"My Faulcon now is ſharpe and paſſing emptie, / And til ſhe ſtoope ſhe muſt not be full gorg'd, / For then ſhe never lookes upon her lure."
7
anything that serves as an enticement wordnet
8
A velvet smoothing brush.

Verb

1
To attract by temptation, appeal, or guile. transitive
"It had been sixteen years since the BBC’s Grace Wyndham Goldie wrote her internal memo about luring him back to make sociological/scientific TV programmes. Now a second note had circulated, from the science department, proposing that he should present the Corporation’s next educative megaseries."
2
provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion wordnet
3
To attract fish with a lure. transitive
4
To recall a hawk with a lure. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman lure, from Old French loirre (Modern French leurre), from Frankish *lōþr, from Proto-Germanic *lōþr-, perhaps ultimately related to *laþō (“invitation, calling”), or from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to hide”). Compare English allure, also from Old French. Probably related to German Luder (“bait”).

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Icelandic lúðr.

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