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Croon
Croon
(kroōn)
, Verb.
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.
Croon
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Crooned
(kroōnd)
; 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. Bronté.
2.
To soothe by singing softly.
The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and
crooned
himself asleep. Dickens.
Croon
,Noun.
1.
A low, continued moan; a murmur.
2.
A low singing; a plain, artless melody.