Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Allude

Allude ({not transcribed}) , intransitive verb

[Latin alludere to play with, to allude; ad + ludere to play.]

To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the story alludes to a recent transaction.
These speeches... do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use. — Hooker

Allude , transitive verb

To compare allusively; to refer (something) as applicable. [Obsolete] — Wither