The noise of them that sing do I hear. --Ex. xxxii.
18.
2. To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do.
On every bough the briddes heard I sing. --Chaucer.
Singing birds, in silver cages hung. --Dryden.
3. To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in
passing through a crevice.
O'er his head the flying spear Sang innocent, and
spent its force in air. --Pope.
4. To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to
celebrate something in poetry. --Milton.
Bid her . . . sing Of human hope by cross event
destroyed. --Prior.
{Singing bird}. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Popularly, any bird that sings; a song bird.
(b) Specifically, any one of the Oscines.
{Singing book}, a book containing music for singing; a book
of tunes.
{Singing falcon} or {hawk}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Chanting falcon},
under {Chanting}.
{Singing fish} (Zo["o]l.), a California toadfish ({Porichthys
porosissimus}).
{Singing flame} (Acoustics), a flame, as of hydrogen or coal
gas, burning within a tube and so adjusted as to set the
air within the tube in vibration, causing sound. The
apparatus is called also {chemical harmonicon}.
{Singing master}, a man who teaches vocal music.
{Singing school}, a school in which persons are instructed in
singing.