On every bough the briddes heard I sing.
Chaucer.
Singing birds, in silver cages hung.
Dryden.
3. To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through
a crevice.
O'er his head the flying spear Sang innocent, and spent its force
in air.
Pope.
4. To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate
something in poetry. Milton.
Bid her . . . sing Of human hope by cross event destroyed.
Prior.
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