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knell |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Knell \Knell\, n. [OE. knel, cnul, AS cnyll fr cnyllan to sound a bell; cf D. & G. knallen to clap, crack, G. & Sw knall a clap, crack, loud sound, Dan. knalde to clap, crack. Cf {Knoll}, n. & v.] The stoke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence figuratively, a warning of or a sound indicating, the passing away of anything The dead man's knell Is there scarce asked for who --Shak. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day --Gray. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Knell \Knell\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Knelled}; p. pr & vb n. {Knelling}.] [OE. knellen, knillen, As cnyllan See {Knell}, n.] To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence to sound as a warning or evil omen. Not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee. --Beau. & Fl Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ``alone''. --Ld. Lytton. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Knell \Knell\, v. t. To summon, as by a knell. Each matin bell, the baron saith, Knells us back to a world of death. --Coleridge. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: knell n : the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something v 1: ring, as of bells announcing death 2: make ring, as of bells etc.; "Ring the bells" [syn: {ring}]
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