1. Of a hawk: Trained to come to the lure.
a. 1576. Common Conditions, 409 (Brandl), 613. The leured hauke, whose rowlyng eyes are fixed on Partredge fast.
1599. Porter, Angry Wom. Abingt. (Percy Soc.), 71. Like a well lurde hawke she knowes her call.
2. Entrapped.
1720. Gay, Dione, II. ii. Poems II. 453. Bid the lurd lark, whom tangling nets surprise, On soaring pinion rove the spacious skies.