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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A lullaby.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A song sung to a babe in the cradle; a lullaby.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a quiet song that lulls a child to sleep.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep
  • noun the act of singing a quiet song to lull a child to sleep

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