knell /ˈnɛl/
喪鐘聲,哀傷的聲音,凶兆(vt.)(vi.)鳴喪鐘
Knell n. 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.
The dead man's knell
Is there scarce asked for who. --Shak.
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day. --Gray.
Knell, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Knelled p. pr. & vb. n. Knelling.] 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.
Knell, v. t. To summon, as by a knell.
Each matin bell, the baron saith,
Knells us back to a world of death. --Coleridge.
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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 in announcing death
2: make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical
edification; "Ring the bells"; "My uncle rings every
Sunday at the local church" [syn: ring]