Noah Webster
Lull
LULL, verb transitive [Latin lallo. The sense is to throw down, to still, to appease. Seamen say, the wind lulls, when it subsides.]
To quiet; to compose; to cause to rest. The nation may be lulled into security.
- To lull him soft asleep.
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, to lull the daughters of necessity.
LULL, verb intransitive To subside; to cease; to become calm; as, the wind lulls.
LULL, noun Power or quality of soothing.