Piers Plowman.
And various science lures the learned eye.
Gay.
Lure, v. i. To recall a hawk or other animal.
Lurg (?), n. (Zoöl.) A large marine annelid (Nephthys cæca), inhabiting
the sandy shores of Europe and America. It is whitish, with a pearly
luster, and grows to the length of eight or ten inches.
Lu"rid (?), a. [L. luridus.] 1. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy;
dismal.
Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame.
Thomson.
Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide.
Tennyson.
2. (Bot.) Having a brown color tinged with red, as of flame seen
through smoke.