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n. Allurement. [ R. ] Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F.; aller to go. ] Gait; bearing. [ 1913 Webster ]

The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men. Harper's Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act alluring; temptation; enticement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though Adam by his wife's allurement fell. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which allures; any real or apparent good held forth, or operating, as a motive to action; as, the allurements of pleasure, or of honor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, allures. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. alure, aleure, walk, gait, fr. aler (F. aller) to go. ] A walk or passage; -- applied to passages of various kinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sides of every street were covered with fresh alures of marble. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. canneler to groove. ] (Mil.) A groove in any cylinder; specif., a groove around the cylinder of an elongated bullet for small arms to contain a lubricant, or around the rotating band of a gun projectile to lessen the resistance offered to the rifling. Also, a groove around the base of a cartridge, where the extractor takes hold. -- Can"ne*lured a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

‖n. [ F., head of hair. ] A hairlike envelope. [ 1913 Webster ]

The nucleus and chevelure of nebulous star. Sir. W. Hershel. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] The process of chasing on metals; also, the work thus chased. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Colures [ F. colure, L. coluri, pl., fr. Gr. ko`loyros dock-tailed, a"i ko`loyroi (sc. grammai` lines) the colures; fr. ko`los docked, stunted + o'yra` tail. So named because a part is always beneath the horizon.] (Astron. & Geog.) One of two great circles intersecting at right angles in the poles of the equator. One of them passes through the equinoctial points, and hence is denominated the equinoctial colure; the other intersects the equator at the distance of 90° from the former, and is called the solstitial colure. [1913 Webster]

Thrice the equinoctial line
He circled; four times crossed the car of night
From pole to pole, traversing each colure. Milton. [1913 Webster]

n. [ F., prop., a dropping. ] (Hort.) A disease affecting grapes, esp. in California, manifested by the premature dropping of the fruit. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Failure. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] 1. (Bookbinding) The lining of a book cover, esp. one of unusual sort, as of tooled leather, painted vellum, rich brocade, or the like. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Paleon.) The reflexed margin of the trilobite carapace. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F. ] The neck of horse. R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Fail. ] 1. Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Want of success; the state of having failed. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A failing; a slight fault. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. il- in + lure. ] To deceive; to entice; to lure. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The devil insnareth the souls of many men, by illuring them with the muck and dung of this world. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. loire, loirre, loerre, F. leurre lure, decoy; of German origin; cf. MHG. luoder, G. luder lure, carrion. ] 1. A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; -- used by falconers in recalling hawks. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any enticement; that which invites by the prospect of advantage or pleasure; a decoy. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Hat Making) A velvet smoothing brush. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Lured p. pr. & vb. n. Luring. ] [ OF. loirer, loirier, F. leurrer. See Lure, n. ] To draw to the lure; hence, to allure or invite by means of anything that promises pleasure or advantage; to entice; to attract. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am not lured with love. Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

And various science lures the learned eye. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To recall a hawk or other animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. Named from William Maclure, the geologist. ] (Paleon.) A genus of spiral gastropod shells, often of large size, characteristic of the lower Silurian rocks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A white crystalline acid derived from pyrimidine; it is used in preparing barbiturate drugs.
Syn. -- barbituric acid. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ F., lit., peel, fr. peler to peel. ] A crisp, hard, thin paper, sometimes used for postage stamps. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. silurus a sort of river fish, Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;: cf. F. silure. ] (Zool.) A fish of the genus Silurus, as the sheatfish; a siluroid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. soillure, F. souillure. See Soil to make dirty. ] Stain; pollution. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then fearing rust or soilure, fashioned for it
A case of silk. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A telluride. [ Obsoles. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) Combined or impregnated with tellurium; tellurized. [ Written also telluretted. ] [ Obsoles. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Tellureted hydrogen (Chem.), hydrogen telluride, H2Te, a gaseous substance analogous to hydrogen sulphide; -- called also tellurhydric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. tubulure. ] (Chem.) A short tubular opening at the top of a retort, or at the top or side of a bottle; a tubulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Value. [ Obs. ] Ld. Berners. [ 1913 Webster ]