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To celebrate in song. The poets chant in the theaters. Bramhall.

One who chants; a singer or songster. Pope.

A sailor's song.

A melody; a song. [Obs.] With charm of earliest birds. Milton. Free liberty to chant our charms at will. Spenser.

singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony. Choral service, a service of song.

Parts of a song or hymn recurring at intervals, as at the end of stanzas; also, a company of singers who join with the singer or choir in singer or choir in singing such parts.

he end. At every close she made, the attending throng Replied, and bore the burden of the song. Dryden.

To join or patch clumsily. If fond Bavius vent his clouted song. P. Fletcher

s; concord of sounds; harmony; as, a concent of notes. [Archaic.] Bacon. That undisturbed song of pure concent. Milton.

usical instruments. [Obs.] Milton. To make a sad consort`; Come, let us join our mournful song with theirs. Spenser.

rth. Thomson. Hail, Son of God, Savior of men! thy name Shall be the copious matter of my song. Milton.

A song or chant made for such a festivity.

on; to incubate. While the hen is covering her eggs, the male . . . diverts her with his songs. Addison.

Believing; giving credence; credulous. [R.] If with too credent esr you list songs. Shak.

at croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan. Shak. Two ravens now began to croak Their nuptial song. Wordsworth.

ad. Dust unto dust, what must be, must; If you can't get crumb, you'd best eat crust. Old Song. Crumb brush, a brush for sweeping crumbs from a table. -- To a crum, with great exactness; completely.

The ringdove or wood pigeon. Scarce with cushat's homely song can vie. Sir W. Scott.

ng in cycles; as, cyclical time. Coleridge. Cyclic chorus, the chorus which performed the songs and dances of the dithyrambic odes at Athens, dancing round the altar of Bacchus in a circle. -- Cyclic poets, certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan war and its heroes; -- so called because k…

Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song.

To require; to demand; to claim. [Obs.] A doleful case desires a doleful song. Spenser.