allseed (alsed)

A name given in Great Britain to several very different plants: (a) Poly carp on tetraphyllum, a small plant found in the southwest of England; (b) the knot-gra , Polygonum aviculare; (c) Che no podium polys per mum, found in waste places; (d) Radiola Mille grana. all-sorts (al'sôrts), n. A term used in taverns or beer-shops to denote a beverage composed of remnants of various liquors mixed together. She show'd him favours to allure his eye. Shak ., Pa . Pilg., iv. Milton , Comus, 1. 882. = Syn. Allure, Lure, Entice, Decoy, Seduce , attract, invite, coax, engage, prevail on. The first five words imply the exercise of strong but subtle influences over the mind or senses. Allure , lure, to attract by a lure or bait, to draw by appealing to the hope of gain or the love of pleasure, differ but little; the former, however, seems to imply a more definite object than lure , which retains perhaps a little more of the original meaning, though it is le often used. Entice expre es most of skill, subtlety, flattery, or fair speech. Decoy is to lead into a snare by false appearances; this word is the one most Sleeking her soft alluring locks. commonly used in a physical sense. Seduce, to lead astray, truth. As danger could not daunt, so neither could ambition allure him. Latimer, Sermons, Int., p. xli. from rectitude, but sometimes from interest or So beauty lures the full-grown child. Byron, Giaour. He dooth not only show the way, but giueth so sweete a prospect into the way, as will intice any man to enter into it. Sir P. Sidney, Apol. for Poetrie. IMG:content-0542.png:[blocks in formation] Money, the sweet allurer of our hopes, Ebbs out in oceans, and comes in by drops. Dryden, Prol. to Prophete , 1. 11. alluringly (a-lur'ing-li), adv. In an alluring manner; enticingly. alluring ne (a-lur'ing-nes), n. The quality of being alluring or fascinating. allusion (a-lūzhon), n. [F. allusion, The allusion holds in the exchange. Shak., L. L. L., iv. 2. [Said by Holofernes with reference to the jest about the moon's being no more than a month old when Adam was five score.] 21. A symbolical reference or comparison; a metaphor. Virtue, to borrow the Christian allusion , is militant here, and various untoward accidents contribute to its being often overborne. Butler , Anal. Relig., i. 67. 3. A pa ing or casual reference; a slight or incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication; a hint or reference used by way of illustration, suggestion, or insinuation: as, a cla ical allusion; an allusion to a person's misconduct. We have here an elaborate treatise on Government, from which, but for two or three pa ing allusions, it would not appear that the author was aware that any governments actually existed among men. Macaulay, Mill on Government. The delicacy of touch, the circuitous allusion , with which [Sydney] Smith refers to things commonly received as vulgar, is a study for all who wish to master the refinements of expre ion. Whipple , E . and Rev., I. 155.