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Webster dictionary was developed by Noah Webster in the beginning of 19th century. On this website, you can find definition for lullaby from the 1913 edition of Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. Define lullaby using one of the most comprehensive free online dictionaries on the web.
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lullaby
Part of Speech: verb transitive
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- In June, when so many an ecstatic love- song among the birds has modulated from accents of ardent love to those of glad fruition, when the sonnet to his " mistress's eyebrow" is shortly to give place to the lullaby, then, like the " worm i' the bud," the cow- bird begins her parasitical career. - "My Studio Neighbors", William Hamilton Gibson.
- A single hymn, two or three kindergarten action songs, hitherto unheard in that community, a rollicking negro chorus; and, at the last, " for the children and the mothers," the teacher said, one soft lullaby in which for the first time the teacher's voice was heard, the low, vibrant tones filling the room with music such as in all their lives they had never listened to. - "The Doctor A Tale Of The Rockies", Ralph Connor.
- The ivy heard these envious words, and they made her very sad; but she said nothing of them to the oak- tree, and that night the oak- tree rocked her to sleep as he repeated the lullaby a zephyr was singing to him. - "A Little Book of Profitable Tales", Eugene Field.