2. To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do. On every bough the briddes heard I sing. Chaucer. Singing birds, in silver cages hung. Dryden.
3. To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice. O'er his head the flying spear Sang innocent, and spent its force in air. Pope.
4. To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry. Milton. Bid her . . . sing Of human hope by cross event destroyed. Prior.
5. Ti cry out; to complain. [Obs.] They should sing if thet they were bent. Chaucer.
SING
Sing, v. t.
1. To utter with musical infections or modulations of voice.
And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of
the Lamb. Rev. xv. 3.
And in the darkness sing your carol of high praise. Keble.
2. To celebrate is song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry. Milton. Arms and the man I sing. Dryden. The last, the happiest British king, Whom thou shalt paint or I shall sing. Addison.
3. To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep.
4. To accompany, or attend on, with singing. I heard them singing home the bride. Longfellow.
SINGE Singe, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Singed; p. pr. & vb. n. Singeing.] Etym: [OE. sengen, AS. sengan in besengan (akin to D. zengen, G. sengen), originally, to cause to sing, fr. AS. singan to sing, in allusion to the singing or hissing sound often produced when a substance is singed, or slightly burned. See Sing.]