Crōōn1, n.
n. 1. A low, continued moan; a murmur. 2. A simple piece of music; a plain, artless melody.
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Croon
Crōōn2, v. t.
[imp. & p. p. CROONED; p. pr. & vb. n. CROONING.]
Sense 1. To sing in a low tone; to sing softly; to hum.
Holding fast his gude blue bonnet Whiles crooning o'er some auld Scots sonnet. Burns.
Sense 2. To soothe by singing softly.
The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep. Dickens.
Crōōn3, v. i.
v. i. [Scot.] 1. To make a continuous noise in a low, hollow tone, as cattle do when in pain; to whine or moan. 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.