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croon

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WordNet
Preliminary study for the portrait of Maria Croon, for the portrait of the family of Gerrit Willem van Oosten de Bruyn.
Preliminary study for the portrait of Maria Croon, for the portrait of the family of Gerrit Willem van Oosten de Bruyn.
  1. (v) croon
    sing softly
Illustrations
Portrait of the Archbishop of Utrecht Theodorus van der Croon, bareheaded. Knee pad, sitting in a chair turned to the right. The archbishop's right arm rests on the back of the chair, in his left hand he holds a folded paper.
Portrait of the Archbishop of Utrecht Theodorus van der Croon, bareheaded. Knee pad, sitting in a chair turned to the right. The archbishop's right arm rests on the back of the chair, in his left hand he holds a folded paper.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Croon
    A low singing; a plain, artless melody.
  2. Croon
    A low, continued moan; a murmur.
  3. Croon
    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."
  4. Croon
    To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain.
  5. Croon
    To sing in a low tone, as if to one's self; to hum. "Hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise."
  6. Croon
    To sing in a soft, evenly modulated manner adapted to amplifying systems, especially to sing in such a way with exaggerated sentimentality.
  7. Croon
    To soothe by singing softly. "The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. croon
    To utter a low continued murmuring sound resembling moaning or lamenting.
  2. croon
    To sing softly and monotonously to one's self; hum softly and plaintively.
  3. croon
    To utter a low muffled roar; bellow monotonously.
  4. croon
    To sing in a low humming tone; hum; affect by humming.
  5. (n) croon
    A low, hollow moan or bellow.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (v.t) Croon
    krōōn (Scot.) to utter a low, monotonous, inarticulate sound like a baby: to sing or hum in an undertone
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. croinen, cf. D. kreunen, to moan. √24

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Cf. Dut. kreunen, to groan.

Usage in the news

Sinatra crooned, the world swooned. ashingtonpost.com

Like Kato, the LS is quietly eager to please, parallel parking itself and crooning through its Mark Levinson audio until danger demands its martial arts moves. motortrend.com

Manny Pacquiao shows gentle side crooning 70's love song. thestar.com

The second half of Opening Night of Pops welcomes Gill 's country crooning. blog.newsok.com

"If you find yourself in lockup, write a song about a jail," Merle Haggard croons on "Laugh It Off," sounding like he just sneaked out of the drunk tank. spin.com

The phrase "touch me" had a lot more subtext when Jim Morrison crooned it in the Doors song of the same name. blog.caranddriver.com

Ray Johnson, a retired music teacher, composer and avid gardener croons, "Got the mole attack blues I hate moles," as he struts through his garden aiming a slingshot. fayobserver.com

Crooning and Swinging in a Night of Reinvention. nytimes.com

The UK prog-rockers went Kid A with this year's The 2nd Law, but this was the LP's pop-ready cherry – all sweet Bonoish crooning by Matt Bellamy, electronically distressed backing vocals and deep-space bass wobble. rollingstone.com

), this mutant jam shifts midway into a spooky carnival scene, with Cedric Bixler-Zavala's shivering whispers turning to rabid snarls, sultry croons, and heavy-metal howls. rollingstone.com

Eddie Vedder and Glen Hansard croon and swoon at the Fabulous Fox, Friday, July 1. kdhx.org

Shannon Whitworth — She has garnered comparisons to everyone from Patsy Cline to Billie Holiday, but the smoky, sultry voice of Shannon Whitworth reminds me more of the languid crooning of Lucinda Williams. free-times.com

President Barack Obama rocked the Apollo Theater in January when he proved he could croon with the best of them, with his rendition of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together.". usnews.com

Despite the humid, summer-like temperature, last night's Matt Pond PA show at the Paradise Rock Club embodied the perfect autumn evening, combining Pond 's slow burning croon with a stage decorated with fall foliage. boston.com

Utah's most talented kids share their passions, from high-flying freestyle skiing to crooning away in Nashville. saltlakemagazine.com

Usage in literature

Dimly and faint they croon, blue violins. "American Poetry, 1922" by Edna St. Vincent Millay

All around the silent watchers the jungle voices whispered and crooned. "Gold Out of Celebes" by Aylward Edward Dingle

I even found myself much calmer in spirit by the time I'd crooned and soothed the Twins off again. "The Prairie Mother" by Arthur Stringer

Mercy had learned that same song, as her mother crooned it long ago by the side of her cot. "A Son of Hagar" by Sir Hall Caine

At that Grandma Holly crooned some single indistinguishable syllable in her throat, and then off came the cloak. "Friendship Village" by Zona Gale

As the logs blazed up, the guests on the circle of benches crooned "Suwanee River," and "Old Black Joe," and Claire crooned with them. "Free Air" by Sinclair Lewis

Something of the accents of the voice that crooned to her then was in the woman's tones now. "Northern Lights" by Gilbert Parker

Religion was crooning a solemn old ditty, as she always did when alone and thinking. "Shapes that Haunt the Dusk" by Various

He pressed his hand over the glossy neck of the horse and crooned to it. "Colorado Jim" by George Goodchild

A fresh wind filled the sail, and ruffled Gulliver's white breast as he sat on the mast-head crooning a cheery song to himself. "Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI" by Louisa M. Alcott

Usage in poetry
And tender-hearted Lawson
Sang everybody's wrongs;
And Brennan, in the basement,
Crooned weird, symbolic songs.
Little bird! O little bird!
Thou art music far away,
Like the tender croon of the mother loved
In the kindly sleep of death.
Let them that guard the hornàed Moon
By my bedside their memories croon.
So shall I have new dreams and blest
In my brief rest.
But gi'e me Willie at his best,
His brain clear wi' a glass or twa;
An' I wad wager half a croon
That he wad fairly ding them a'.
I heard, as still the seed he cast,
How, crooning to himself, he sung.
'I sow again the holy Past,
The happy days when I was young.
When gowden leaves are fallin' doon,
Each twirlin' like a dancer,
An' our elm wears a yaller croon?
"Thoo knaws reet well my answer.