croon

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1. 1.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.
2. 2.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.
3. 3.A low, continued moan; a murmur.
4. 4.A low singing; a plain, artless melody.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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