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▪ I. lullaby, int. and n.|ˈlʌləbaɪ|
Forms: 6 lulley by, 6–7 lullabie, 7 lull-a-ba, lullyby, 8 lullabye.
[f. prec. + -by, as in by-by, bye-bye1: cf. hushaby, rockaby.]
1. int. A soothing refrain, used to please or pacify infants. Also gen., any soothing refrain. (Sometimes preceded by lulla.)
c1560Richardes Misogonus iv. i. 76 (Brandl) When my maistrisse lay in and we Sange lulley by baby and bore ye. 1588Greene Pandosto (1843) 27 The good wife learned to sing lullaby at home with her yong babe. 1588Shakes. Tit. A. ii. iii. 29 Whiles Hounds and Hornes, and sweet Melodious Birds Be vnto vs as in a Nurses Song Of Lullabie, to bring her Babe asleepe. 1590― Mids. N. ii. ii. 14–19 Sing in your sweet Lullaby, Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby, Neuer harme, nor spell, nor charme, Come our louely Lady nye, So good night with Lullaby. 1651N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. ii. xl. (1739) 174 King James conquering all enmity, spake Peace abroad, and sang Lullaby at home. 1739A. Nicol Poems 14 Where once, of late the Nurse's Lull-a-ba Made all the Place delightful to the Eyes Now all's dispersed. a1764Lloyd Ode to Obliv. Poet. Wks. 1774 I. 128 And, hollow blasts, which never cease to sigh, Hum to each care-struck mind their lulla-lulla-by! 1807–8W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 217 She with ‘lulla-by-baby’ beguiles it [a child] to rest. a1845Hood Serenade i, Lullaby, oh, lullaby! The brat will never shut an eye.
†b. Used for ‘farewell’, ‘good-night’. Obs.
1599Pass. Pilgr. xv, Then lullaby the learned man hath got the lady gay, For now my song is ended. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. v. i. 48 Marry sir, lullaby to your bountie till I come agen.
2. n. A song sung to children to soothe them to rest. Also, any song which soothes to rest.
1588Greene Pandosto (1607) 12 Alas sweet vnfortunate babe..shalt thou haue the whistling windes for thy Lullaby. 1779Burney in Phil. Trans. LX. 206 In Italy the ninne nonne, or lullabies, are fragments of elegant melodies. 1842Lytton Zanoni 24 You thought you heard the lullaby which a fairy might sing to some fretful changeling. 1900Contemp. Rev. Aug. 247 The feeling of quietness evoked by an evening landscape or by a lullaby.
b. transf. and fig.
1611Rich Honesty Age (Percy Soc.) 10 Hee that would please the time must learne to sing lullaby to Folly, and there is no musicke so delightfull as the smoothing vp of sinne. 1622T. Scott Belg. Pismire 11 Rockt asleepe in desperate securitie, with a lullabie of peace and safety, hee derides all happie admonition. 1679Vind. Sir T. Player 2/2 The rest of his Sheet consists of Wheadle and Lullabies. 1796Burke Regic. Peace i. Wks. VIII. 196 Would not this warm language of high indignation have more of sound reason in it..than all the lullabies of flatterers? 1819S. Rogers Human Life 2 The bees have hummed their noon⁓tide lullaby.
3. attrib. and Comb., as lullaby-song, lullaby-sound, lullaby-speech, lullaby-strain; lullaby-cheat Cant, a baby.
1671R. Head Eng. Rogue i. iv. (1680) 35 His Doxie..carried at her back a Lullaby-cheat. 1687Miege Fr. Dict. ii, Lullaby, a Lullaby-Song. 1795Mason Ch. Mus. i. 63 That these lullaby strains should be exclusively adhered to. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 437 The Greeks, from the letter λ (lambda), denominated this lambdacismus; the Romans with more severity, lallatio, or lullaby-speech. a1849Poe Annie Poems (1859) 118 Water that flows With a lullaby sound. a1849H. Coleridge Ess. (1851) II. 158 Still-life lullaby poetry.
▪ II. ˈlullaby, v.
[f. prec.]
trans. To soothe with a lullaby; to sing to sleep. Also transf. and fig.
1592G. Harvey Pierce's Super. (1593) 194 No man could..lullaby the circumspectest Argus more sweetly. 1596Copley Fig for Fortune 59 Sweet Sound that all mens sences lullabieth. 1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass 19 It..lullabees the senses, yea, intoxicates the..soule, with a pleasing poyson. 1647Howell Twelve Treat. (1661) 268 In Holland..he was..pourtrayed lying in his cradle lullaby'd and rock'd asleep by the Spaniard. 1818Hazlitt Pol. Ess. (1819) 340 When we see a poor creature like Ferdinand VII..lullabied to rest with the dreams of superstition [etc.]. 1890J. Middlemass Two False Moves III. xiv. 210 Ruth..kissed and lullabyed her to sleep. 1893A. Austin Conv. Winckelmann, etc. (1897) 157 Then I..lullaby my pain with plaintive song.
b. absol. or intr.
1603Florio Montaigne i. xix. (1632) 31 No song of birds, no musikes sound Can lullabie to sleepe profound. 1866Carlyle Remin. I. 101 Waves..beautifully humming and lullabying on that fine long sandy beach. |