croon

1. (transitive)Examples: "He was crooning a song."; "Tam ſkelpit on thro' dub and mire, / Deſpiſing vvind, and rain, and fire; / VVhiles holding faſt his gude blue bonnet; / VVhiles crooning o'er ſome auld Scots ſonnet; […]"; "So they went, toiling up [the staircase]; she singing all the way, and Paul sometimes crooning out a feeble accompaniment."transitive

2. (transitive)Examples: "[I]n his ill-remembered prayer, and in the fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep, there breathed as true a spirit as ever studied homily expressed, or old cathedral arches echoed."; "“But, you know, crooners gonna croon.”"transitive

3. (intransitive)Examples: "She was crooning, but I couldn’t make out what the song was."; "But hark! the robin takes up the strain. […] Thou art a type of the true poet, even of him who "crooneth to himsel" amid poverty, and want, and toil. Other birds require the sunshine and the flower to wake their musical utterances, but the drifting flake and the arrowy hail stay not thy song."; ""You, my sweet boy," she croons. "How much you still owe me?" […] "Be happy I ain't charging interest like how the man and all his bug-a-boos do," she croons on. "Just gimme a twenty. You got a dub or not?""Synonyms: coointransitive

4. (intransitive)Northern-EnglandScotlandintransitive

5. (intransitive)Examples: "Novv Clinkumbell, vvi' rattlin tovv, / Begins to jovv an' croon; […]"; "Even the dull cattle crooned and gazed, / And murmured and looked with anxious pain / For something the mystery to explain."; "'Thou hear'st that lordly Bull of mine, / Neighbour,' quoth Brunskill then; / 'How loudly to the hills he crunes, / That crune to him again.[']"Northern-EnglandScotlandintransitive

6. (intransitive)Northern-EnglandScotlandintransitive