v. Sc. Also 6 crowd. [Echoic.] intr. To make the murmuring sound of a dove. (Also, to croak: see quot. 1710.)
1513. Douglas, Æneis, XII. Prol. 237. The cowschet crowdis and pirkis on the rys.
1619. Z. Boyd, Last Battell (1629), 299 (Jam.). Turtles crouding with sighes and grones vvhich their tongues cannot expresse.
1710. Ruddiman, Gloss. Douglas’ Æneis, Crowde,… to curr like a dove. We now use it Scot. for the noise of frogs.
1785. Burns, To W. Simpson, xii. While thro’ the braes the cushat croods With wailfu’ cry!
