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Pronunciation : Croon (krn)
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [OE. croinen, cf. D. kreunen to moan.
Definition : 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.

i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Croon
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 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.

t. [imp. & p. p. Crooned (krnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Crooning.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Croon
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : 1. A low, continued moan; a murmur.

2. A low singing; a plain, artless melody.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913