Knell
Pronunciation : Knell
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [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.]
Definition : Defn: 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Knell
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [OE. knellen, knillen, As. cnyllan. See Knell, n.]
Definition : Defn: 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.
i. [imp. & p. p. Knelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Knelling.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Knell
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To summon, as by a knell. Each matin bell, the baron saith, Knells us back to a world of death. Coleridge.
t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913