Lure vs Lude - What's the difference?
lure | lude |
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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(obsolete) Sound, noise, clamor
As verbs the difference between lure and lude
is that lure is to attract by temptation etc; to entice while lude is .As a noun lure
is something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.lure
English
Noun
(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)
Verb
(lur)Anagrams
* ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==Verb
lude
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l), (l) * (l) (Scotland)Noun
(luden)- Þa hunten wenden æfter mid muchelen heora lude .'' — ''Layamon's Brut
- Þa luden heo iherden of þan Rom-leoden.'' — ''Layamon's Brut