[f. LULL v.1 + -ING2.] That lulls.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 317/1. Lullynge songs, nenia.
1672. Chaucer’s Ghoast, 26. He sang him such a lulling Song, that he the Giant brought asleep.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 29, ¶ 8. An English Composer should not follow the Italian Recitative too servilely … He may copy out of it all the lulling Softness.
1748. Lady M. W. Montagu, Fashion, 76, in Dodsley, Coll. Poems, III. 277. Let Italy give mimick canvass fire, Carve rock to life, or tune the lulling lyre.
1821. Shelley, Prometh. Unb., I. i. 225. My wings are folded o’er mine ears:… Yet … through their lulling plumes arise, A Shape, a throng of sounds.
1847. Disraeli, Tancred, III. iv. Its lulling influence is proverbial.
