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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Carol

Căr'ol, n.

noun

n. [O. Fr. carole, querole, a kind of dance wherein many dance together, also a carol or Christmas song, equivalent to chanson de carole; caroler, Pr. carolar, to dance, It. carola, carolare, Armor. koroll, and korolla, korolli; L. Lat. carola, diminutive of Lat. chorus, a choral dance, Gr. χορός.]

Sense 1. A song of joy and exultation, or of mirth; a lay; as, a Christmas carol. “The carol and the dance.” Dryden.

Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David’s harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols. Bacon.

It was the carol of a bird. Byron.

Sense 2. A devotional song.

No night is now with hymn or carol blest. Shak.

Cār'ol, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. CAROLED, or CAROLLED; p. pr. & vb. n. CAROLING, or CAROLLING.] To praise or celebrate in song.

The shepherds at their festivals, Carol her goodness. Milton.

Căr'ol, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [See supra.] To sing in joy or festivity; to warble. The gray linnets carol from the hill. Beattie.

Cār'ol or Cār'rol, n.

noun

n. (Arch.) (a.) A small closet or inclosure to sit or read in. (b.) A window. Obs. Gloss.

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