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Lull   /ləl/   Listen
noun
Lull  n.  
1.
The power or quality of soothing; that which soothes; a lullaby. (R.)
2.
A temporary cessation of storm or confusion.


verb
Lull  v. t.  (past & past part. lulled; pres. part. lulling)  To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm; to soothe; to quiet. " To lull him soft asleep." "Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of necessity."


Lull  v. i.  To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate for a time; as, the storm lulls.





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"Lull" Quotes from Famous Books



... hand-maidens, and a thousand pots to be boiled for the next day's feasting;—such a whispering bustle, as if ten thousand fairies made their fingers fly, silently sewing at the new carpet with which the earth was to be clothed, and the new drapery which was to adorn the trees. And then the wind would lull and die away, and we ...
— A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers • Henry David Thoreau
... but a brief lull in the storm. Governor Denny had no power of his own. He could only obey the peremptory instructions he had received. These instructions were irreconcilably hostile to the resolves of the Assembly. Franklin ...
— Benjamin Franklin, A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago - American Pioneers and Patriots Series • John S. C. Abbott
... of the Tribune seemed only a disguise to private revenge. All they believed was, that Rienzi did not dare to destroy them in the face of day; forgetfulness and forgiveness appeared to them as the means designed to lull their vigilance, while abasing their pride: and the knowledge of crime detected forbade them all hope of safety. The hand of their own assassin might be armed against them, or they might be ruined singly, one by one, as was the common ...
— Rienzi • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... temporary lull in the conversation at Sim Ripson's, old Uncle Ben, ex-deacon of a New Hampshire church, lifted up his ...
— Romance of California Life • John Habberton
... for a day, an hour, in this horrible, deathly stagnation, she did not know. At last, walking on blindly through the night, she came to the termination of the Thornhurst estate. Was she to go back and lull herself into the stupor of patience?—to be kissed and wept over, and preached resignation to?—left to sit mutely in that quiet house, while he was dashed about, fighting with the sea for life?—or watching the clock's travelling round hour after ...
— Agatha's Husband - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik (AKA: Dinah Maria Mulock)


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