KNELL
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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 stroke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, (figuratively), a warning or harbinger of, or a sound indicating, the passing away of anything; -- also called death knell.
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The dead man's knell
Is there scarce asked for who.
Shak.
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The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.
Gray.
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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.
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Not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee.
Beau. & Fl.
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Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known,
Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, “alone”.
Ld. Lytton.
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Knell, v. t. To summon, as by a knell.
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Each matin bell, the baron saith,
Knells us back to a world of death.
Coleridge.
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