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<hw>Croon</hw> <tt>(kr??n)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>croinen</ets>, cf. D. <ets>kreunen</ets> to moan. <?/24.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>

<i>Jamieson.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To hum or sing in a low tone; to murmur softly.</def>

<blockquote>Here an old grandmother was <b>crooning</b> over a sick child, and rocking it to and fro. <i>Dickens.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Croon</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Crooned</er> <tt>(kr??nd)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Crooning</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To sing in a low tone, as if to one's self; to hum.</def>

<blockquote>Hearing such stanzas <b>crooned</b> in her praise. <i>C. Bront<?/.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To soothe by singing softly.</def>

<blockquote>The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and <b>crooned</b> himself asleep. <i>Dickens.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Croon</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A low, continued moan; a murmur.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A low singing; a plain, artless melody.</def>

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<hw>Crop</hw> <tt>(kr?p)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>crop</ets>, <ets>croppe</ets>, craw, top of a plant, harvest, AS. <ets>crop</ets>, <ets>cropp</ets>, craw, top, bunch, ear of corn; akin to D. <ets>krop</ets> craw, G. <ets>kropf</ets>, Icel. <ets>kroppr</ets> hump or bunch on the body, body; but cf. also W. <ets>cropa</ets>, <ets>croppa</ets>, crop or craw of a bird, Ir. & Gael. <ets>sgroban</ets>. Cf. <er>Croup</er>, <er>Crupper</er>, <er>Croup</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "<i>Crop</i> and root."

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest.</def>

<blockquote>Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous <b>crop</b>, Corn, wine, and oil. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Grain or other product of the field while standing.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Anything cut off or gathered.</def>

<blockquote>Guiltless of steel, and from the razor free, It falls a plenteous <b>crop</b> reserved for thee. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; <as>as, a convict's <ex>crop</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>8.</b> <fld>(Mining.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>Tin ore prepared for smelting.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.</def>

<i>Knight.</i>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.</def>

<cs><col>Neck and crop</col>, <cd>altogether; roughly and at once. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cd></cs>

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