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| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Croon \Croon\ (kr??n), v. i. [OE. croinen, cf. D. kreunen to moan. [?]24.] 1. To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain. [Scot.] --Jamieson. 2. To hum or sing in a low tone; to murmur softly. Here an old grandmother was crooning over a sick child, and rocking it to and fro. --Dickens. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Croon \Croon\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crooned} (kr??nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crooning}.] 1. To sing in a low tone, as if to one's self; to hum. Hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise. --C. Bront[?]. 2. To soothe by singing softly. The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep. --Dickens. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Croon \Croon\, n. 1. A low, continued moan; a murmur. 2. A low singing; a plain, artless melody. | |
