- 1. n. 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. Source: opted
- 2. n. To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen. Source: opted
- 3. v. t. To summon, as by a knell. Source: opted
- 4. n. the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something Source: wordnet
- 5. v. ring as in announcing death Source: wordnet
- 6. v. make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification Source: wordnet
- 7. 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. 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. To summon, as by a knell. Each matin bell, the baron saith, Knells us back to a world of death. Coleridge. Source: webster
- 8. The stoke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of aperson; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, figuratively, awarning 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: adambom
- 9. n:100 n. the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something v. ring as in announcing death Source: ecdict
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