Sing

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To accompany, or attend on, with singing.

II. Sing ·vi To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do.

III. Sing ·vi Ti cry out; to Complain.

IV. Sing ·vt To utter with musical infections or modulations of voice.

V. Sing ·vt To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep.

VI. Sing ·vi To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice.

VII. Sing ·vi To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry.

VIII. Sing ·vt To celebrate is song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry.

IX. Sing ·vi To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, ·etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece.

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