singing

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SING'ING, participle present tense Uttering melodious or musical notes; making a shrill sound; celebrating in song; reciting in verse. SING'ING, noun The act of uttering sounds with musical inflections; musical articulation; the utterance of melodious notes.
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