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To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece.

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  1. v. i. To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece.
  2. v. i. To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do.
  3. v. i. To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice.
  4. v. i. To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry.
  5. v. i. Ti cry out; to complain.
  6. v. t. To utter with musical infections or modulations of voice.
  7. v. t. To celebrate is song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry.
  8. v. t. To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep.
  9. v. t. To accompany, or attend on, with singing.
  10. v. deliver by singing
  11. v. produce tones with the voice
  12. v. to make melodious sounds