[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That crows. In Path., applied to the sound made in inspiration in hooping-cough and croup.
c. 1620. Z. Boyd, Zion’s Flowers (1855), 68. Ere crowing Heraulds summon up the daye.
1824. Blackw. Mag., XV. 471/1. The joyous, crowing laugh of that little creature.
1828. Scott, F. M. Perth, xxii. Her infant … already black in the face, and uttering the gasping crowing sound, which gives the popular name to the complaint.
1841. Tweedie, Libr. Pract. Med., III. 61. Laryngismus Stridulus … the Crowing Disease.
Comb. 1710. E. Ward, British Hudibras, 123. They’d been so crowing sure Of winning All.
