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To draw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasing or desirable; to allure by some bait.

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  1. v. t. To draw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasing or desirable; to allure by some bait.
  2. n. enameled or lacquered metalware (usually gilded and elaborately painted); popular in the 18th century
  3. To draw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasing or desirable; to allure by some bait. [Written also toll.] Whatever you observe him to be more frighted at then he should, tole him on to by insensible degrees, till at last he masters the difficulty.
  4. To draw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasingor desirable; to allure by some bait. [Written also toll.]Whatever you observe him to be more frighted at then he should, tolehim on to by insensible degrees, till at last he masters thedifficulty.
  5. n:100 n. enameled or lacquered metalware (usually gilded and elaborately painted); popular in the 18th century