Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Crooning"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Croon \Croon\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crooned} (kr??nd); 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.
Bront?.
2. To soothe by singing softly.
The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung
and crooned himself asleep. --Dickens.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
crooning
n 1: singing in a soft low tone; "her crooning soon put the child
to sleep"
2: the act of singing popular songs in a sentimental manner
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