Verb

(allud)

To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.

* 1597 , , Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity , Book V, Chapter xxix.3, 1841 ed., page 523:

These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use.

* 1846 , George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany: Volume 2, Part 2 , page 474

It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude .

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01

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Verb

(en-verb)

(of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence

The proposition that "all dogs are mammals" implies that my dog is a mammal

(of a person) to suggest by logical inference

When I state that your dog is brown, I am not implying that all dogs are brown

(of a person or proposition) to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement

What do you mean "we need to be more careful with hygiene"? Are you implying that I don't wash my hands?

(archaic) to enfold, entangle.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.iv:

And in his bosome secretly there lay / An hatefull Snake, the which his taile vptyes / In many folds, and mortall sting implyes .