Verb

(en verb)

To pull toward without touching.

* Derham

All bodies and all parts of bodies mutually attract themselves and one another.

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To arouse interest.

To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure.

* (John Milton)

Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze.

Verb

and (intransitive)

To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.

* 1977 , ("The Wife of Bath's Tale"), Penguin Classics, p. 290:

Though he had beaten me in every bone / He still could wheedle me to love.

I'd like one of those, too, if you can wheedle him into telling you where he got it.

To obtain by flattery, guile, or trickery.

* Congreve

A deed of settlement of the best part of her estate, which I wheedled out of her.