Both Uses of
allude
in
Ligeia
- It might have been, too, that in these eyes of my beloved lay the secret to which Lord Verulam alludes.†
*alludes = makes an indirect reference
- She spoke again, and now more frequently and pertinaciously, of the sounds—of the slight sounds—and of the unusual motions among the tapestries, to which she had formerly alluded.†
alluded = indirectly referenced
Definition:
to make an indirect reference
The expression, no allusion can mean "not even an indirect reference"; i.e., neither a direct nor an indirect reference to something.