in falconry, a device of leather, in the shape of two wings, stuck with feathers, and baited with a piece of flesh, to call back a hawk when at considerable distance.

LURIDÆ, the name of the 28th order in Linnaeus's fragments of a natural method, consisting of plants whose pale and ominous appearance seems to indicate something baleful and noxious in their nature and quality. This order contains the following genera, viz. atropa, browallia, capsicum, catechu, celia, coltrum, datura, digitalis, elitis, hyoscyamus, lycoctonum, nicotiana, padalium, phyllalis, fetidum, folium, strychnus, and verbascum.