Loured vs Lured - What's the difference?
loured | lured |
(lour)
To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
* 1623 [1593] , (First Folio), act I, scene i
* 1922 , , IX, lines 21-22
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To frown; to look sullen.
* (rfdate) John Dryden:
(lure)
Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
(fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
* 1594 , , IV. i. 178:
A velvet smoothing brush.
To attract by temptation etc.; to entice.
To recall a hawk with a lure.
deceive, trick
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As verbs the difference between loured and lured
is that loured is (lour) while lured is (lure).loured
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* *lour
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(en verb)- And all the clouds that lowr'd vpon our hou?e
- If here to-day the cloud of thunder lours
- To-morrow it will hie on far behests;
- If here to-day the cloud of thunder lours
- To-morrow it will hie on far behests;
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- But sullen discontent sat lowering on her face.
lured
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*lure
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(en noun)- (Milton)
- My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, / And till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, / For then she never looks upon her lure .
- (Knight)
