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Vermilion red; red. [R.] Her face was like the lily roon. J. R. Drake.

The large white-heart cherry.

A senseless babbler or boaster. [Obs.] "I hate such blatteroons." Howell.

A bale or package. covered with hide, or with wood bound with hide; as, a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc.

To hum or sing in a low tone; to murmur softly. Here an old grandmother was crooning over a sick child, and rocking it to and fro. Dickens.

A border worked with flowers. Wright.

A kind of twilled linen cloth for lining. Simmonds.

An ornament produced by notching or carving a rounded molding.

A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell (Triton femorale).

A small cake, composed chiefly of the white of eggs, almonds, and sugar.

To put (a person) ashore on a desolate island or coast and leave him to his fate. Marooning party, a social excursion party that sojourns several days on the shore or in some retired place; a prolonged picnic. [Southern U. S.] Bartlett.

Same as 1st Maroon.

See Octoroon.

The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a mestee.

One of the proprietors of certain tracts of land with manorial privileges and right of entail, under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.

The office of a patroon. Irving.

One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper. Sir W. Temple.

An arrant coward; a dastard; a craven; a mean-spirited wretch. Shak.

Cowardice; want of spirit; pusillanimity.

Resembling a poltroon; cowardly.