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To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm; to soothe; to quiet. " To lull him soft asleep." Spenser. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of necessity. Milton.

A song to quiet babes or lull them to sleep; that which quiets. Shak.

One who, or that which, lulls.

In a lulling manner; soothingly.

ep; in sleep; dormant. Fast asleep the giant lay supine. Dryden. By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Milton.

A vocal or instrumental composition of a soft tranquil character, having a lulling effect; a cradle song.

sweet. Blustering winds, which all night long Had roused the sea, now with hoarse cadence lull Seafaring men o'erwatched. Milton. The accents . . . were in passion's tenderest cadence. Sir W. Scott.

The act of sleeping, or of lulling, to sleep. [Obs.] Pope.

Lulled to sleep. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking. It cradles their fears to sleep. D. A. Clark.

Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific. The drowsy hours, dispensers of all good. Tennyson.

To bathe; to soothe or lull as by bathing. [Obs.] Spenser.

A sweet or agreeable succession of sounds. Lulled with sound of sweetest melody. Shak.

by some supposed to have been opium or hasheesh. Hence, anything soothing and comforting. Lulled with the sweet nepenthe of a court. Pope. Quaff, O quaff this kind nepenthe. Poe.

To calm; to appease; to pacify; to lull; to allay; to tranquillize; as, to quiet the passions; to quiet clamors or disorders; to quiet pain or grief. Quiet yourselves, I pray, and be at peace. Shak.

To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep.

ing. The day has ebbed away, and it is night in his room, before his stertorous breathing lulls. Dickens.

A tinkle, or succession of tinkles. Drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Gray.

Words imitative of the notes of the owl. Thy tu-whits are lulled, I wot, Thy tu-whoos of yesternight. Tennyson.

on; given to reverie; apt to receive, and act upon, fancies as if they were realities. Or lull to rest the visionary maid. Pope.