Definition of "alluring"

Was this poor breast, from Love's allurings free, / Cruel to all, and gentle unto thee ?

1615, George Wither, Fidelia

For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants; so Ahab did, in the end, a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish air.

1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

Lookout heights and Smoky Mountains have allurings all their own.

1952, Daughters of the American Revolution, volume 86, page 250

Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.

1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company