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larum-bell - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
larum-bell (plural larum-bells). (obsolete) An alarm-bell. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […] , London: […] ...
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Alarum Bell, Larum-Bell - ShakespearesWords.com
[Macduff to all] Ring the alarum-bell! Murder and treason! Mac V.v.51, [Macbeth to all] Ring the alarum bell! SHAKESPEARE'S WORDS ...
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Alarum Bell - ShakespearesWords.com
alarum-bell, 'larum-bell (n.) Old form(s): Alarum Bell, Larum-Bell. warning bell. Headword location(s). SHAKESPEARE'S WORDS © 2025 DAVID CRYSTAL & BEN CRYSTAL.
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larum-bell
ˈlarum-bell Obs. exc. poet. [f. larum n. + bell.] = alarm-bell.1568 T. Howell Arb. Amitie (1879) 57 Lest by the way some watchman lay, to ring the larome bell. 1590 Spenser F.Q. ii. ix. 25. 1597 Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iii. i. 17. 1609 Heywood Brit. Troy xv. lxxi, The Larum Bels of death on all sides rin...
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larum-belle and larumbelle - Middle English Compendium
From shortened form of alarm(e & belle. Definitions (Senses and Subsenses). 1. A bell rung to sound a call to arms.
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larum bell, n. meanings, etymology and more
The earliest known use of the noun larum bell is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for larum bell is from around ...
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larum
▪ I. larum, n. (ˈlɛərəm, ˈlærəm) Forms: 6 larom(e, larowme, 8 larrom, -um, 6– larum. [Aphetic form of alarum.] 1. A call to arms, a battle-cry; news of an enemy's approach; any sound to warn of danger. † Hence (rarely) a sudden attack.1549 Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Eph. p. xiv, What larum so euer ...
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larum - American Heritage Dictionary Entry
Share: n. ... 1. A sound warning of danger. 2. A commotion. [Middle English larum- (as in larumbelle, bell sounded for a call to arms), short for alarum; see ...
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Brewer's: Alarum Bell | Infoplease
Alar′um. In feudal times a 'larum bell was rung in the castle in times of danger to summon the retainers to arms. A variant of alarm (q.v.). Awake! awake!
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in what literary work was the poetic phrase "Stygian murk" first used?
Stygian murk , before her watch - case , or a common ' larum - bell ? Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship - boy's eyes ...
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larum, n. meanings, etymology and more - Oxford English Dictionary
A call to arms; a signal of the need to take up arms; a warning of the imminent danger of attack by a hostile force.
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Henry IV, Part 2 - Act 3, scene 1 | Folger Shakespeare Library
1517 A watch-case or a common 'larum bell? 1518 Wilt thou upon the high and giddy ⟨mast⟩ 1519 Seal up the shipboy's eyes and rock his brains 1520 20 In ...
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watch-case
ˈwatch-case † 1. ? A place in which one must keep watch.1597 Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iii. i. 17 O thou dull God [sc. Sleep], why lyest thou with the vilde, In loathsome Beds, and leau'st the Kingly Couch, A Watch-case, or a common Larum-Bell? 2. A hinged case or cover of an old-fashioned watch, enclosing...
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defeasance
defeasance (diːˈfiːzəns) Forms: 5 defesance, Sc. defasance, 6 depheazance, Sc. defaisance, 6–7 defeasans, defeysance, 7 defeisance, 6–9 defeazance, 6– defeasance. [ME. a. AF. defesaunce, OF. defesance undoing, destruction, f. OF. defesant, des-, pr. pple. of desfaire (now défaire) to undo, destroy, ...
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