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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Croon

Croon (kro͞on), 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.

Croon, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crooned (kro͞ond); 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, n. 1. A low, continued moan; a murmur.

2. A low singing; a plain, artless melody.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.