a. That allures; attracting; charming; tempting. -- Al*lur"ing*ly, adv. -- Al*lur"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. from Gr. &unr_; chyle + &unr_; urine. ] (Med.) A morbid condition in which the urine contains chyle or fatty matter, giving it a milky appearance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Glycol + uric. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, glycol and urea; as, glycoluric acid, which is called also hydantoic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Glycolyl + uric. ] (Chem.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, obtained by the reduction of allantoïn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Hydro-, 2 + telluric. ] (Chem.) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium; as, hydrotelluric acid, or hydrogen telluride. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. luridus. ] 1. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke
On the misty river tide. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Having a brown color tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Vivid, sensational, or shocking; graphic or melodramatic; as, the lurid details of a murder. [ PJC ]

n. (Chem.) See Morintannic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Oxalyl + urea. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid related to the ureids, and obtained from parabanic acid as a white silky crystalline substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ See Plus. ] A combining form from L. plus, pluris, more, many; as pluriliteral. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ So called from L. pluries many times, often, which occurs in the first clause. ] (Law) A writ issued in the third place, after two former writs have been disregarded. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. plurifarius, fr. L. plus, pluris, many. Cf. Bifarious. ] Of many kinds or fashions; multifarious. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pluri- + foliolate. ] (Bot.) Having several or many leaflets. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pluri- + literal. ] Consisting of more letters than three. -- n. A pluriliteral word. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pluri- + locular. ] Having several cells or loculi; specifically (Bot.), having several divisions containing seeds; as, the lemon and the orange are plurilocular fruits. [ 1913 Webster ]

Plurilocular sporangia (Bot.), many-celled sporangia, each cell containing a single spore, as in many algæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pluri- + L. parere to bring forth. ] Producing several young at a birth; as, a pluriparous animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pluri- + partite. ] (Bot.) Deeply divided into several portions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pluri- + presence. ] Presence in more places than one. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. plus, pluris, more. ] Superabundance; excess; plethora. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From L. Silures, a people who anciently inhabited a part of England and Wales. ] (Geol.) Of or pertaining to the country of the ancient Silures; -- a term applied to the earliest of the Paleozoic eras, and also to the strata of the era, because most plainly developed in that country. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The Silurian formation, so named by Murchison, is divided into the Upper Silurian and Lower Silurian. The lower part of the Lower Silurian, with some underlying beds, is now separated under the name Cambrian, first given by Sedwick. Recently the term Ordovician has been proposed for the Lower Silurian, leawing the original word to apply only to the Upper Silurian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The Silurian age. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any fish of the family Siluridae or of the order Siluroidei. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. tellus, -uris, the earth. ] Of or pertaining to the earth. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A dweller on the earth. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An instrument for showing the operation of the causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons. [ Written also tellurion. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. tellus, -uris, the earth: cf. F. tellurique. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the earth; proceeding from the earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Amid these hot, telluric flames. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or resembling, tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with tellurous compounds; as, telluric acid, which is analogous to sulphuric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

Telluric bismuth (Min.), tetradymite. --
Telluric silver (Min.), hessite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A compound of tellurium with a more positive element or radical; -- formerly called telluret. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An hypothesis of animal magnetism propounded by Dr. Keiser, in Germany, in which the phenomena are ascribed to the agency of a telluric spirit or influence. [ R. ] S. Thompson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Chem.) A salt of tellurous acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Min.) Oxide of tellurium. It occurs sparingly in tufts of white or yellowish crystals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., from L. tellus, -uris, the earth. ] (Chem.) A rare nonmetallic element, analogous to sulphur and selenium, occasionally found native as a substance of a silver-white metallic luster, but usually combined with metals, as with gold and silver in the mineral sylvanite, with mercury in Coloradoite, etc. Symbol Te. Atomic weight 125.2. [ 1913 Webster ]

Graphic tellurium. (Min.) See Sylvanite. --
Tellurium glance (Min.), nagyagite; -- called also black tellurium. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Chem.) To impregnate with, or to subject to the action of, tellurium; -- chiefly used adjectively in the past participle; as, tellurized ores. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Toluic + uric. ] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of three isomeric crystalline acids, C9H10ON.CO2H, which are toluyl derivatives of glycocoll. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Violet + barbituric. ] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitroso derivative of barbituric acid. It is obtained as a white or yellow crystalline substance, and forms characteristic yellow, blue, and violet salts. [ 1913 Webster ]