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hether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc. "That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets." Hawthorne.

The art of making songs or verse; metrical composition; versification. A half-effected inscription. Written with little skill of songcraft. Longfellow.

Disposed to sing; full of song.

Consisting of songs. [R.] Dryden.

Destitute of the power of song; without song; as, songless birds; songless woods.

One who sings; one skilled in singing; -- not often applied to human beings.

A woman who sings; a female singing bird. Thomson.

A song for the evening; the evening service or form of worship (in the Church of England including vespers and compline); also, the time of evensong. Wyclif. Milton.

ed from the points or dots with which it is noted down. [Obs.] He fights as you sing pricksong. Shak.

A drawling or monotonous tone, as of a badly executed song.

The burden of a song; the chorus; the refrain. Dryden.

corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, got; sing, song; hang, hung. Earle.

anger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song.

rical and balanced whole, which may be sung by a single voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to plain prose, or played upon an instrument; a melody; a tune; an aria.

ind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables. The needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Pope.

An exclamation signifying Praise ye Jehovah. Hence: A song of praise to God. See Hallelujah, the commoner form. I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia. Rev. xix. 1.

The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill. [Written also amaduvad and avadavat.]

o be or to do something. I was not ambitious of seeing this ceremony. Evelyn. Studious of song, and yet ambitious not to sing in vain. Cowper.

A love knot, love token, or love song. (pl.) Love glances or love tricks. [Obs.]

It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive. When that I was and a little tiny boy. Shak.