Noun

(en noun)

Ready vitality and vigor.

* 1999 , , Stardust , p. 58 (2001 Perennial paperback edition)

But the youth of today were a pasty lot, with none of the get-up-and-go, none of the vigor and vim that he remembered from the days when he was young…

Noun

(en-noun)

The tendency to attract.

The feeling of being attracted.

* , chapter=5

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction . A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}

An event or location that has a tendency to attract visitors.

(chess) The sacrifice of pieces in order to expose the enemy king.