Browsing By Tag "knell"
Browsing By Tag "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.
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Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
A Voice of Ireland
Yes-tear down our homes! leave the hearthstone cold As the hearts of you who have laid it bare; And stone from stone let the walls be rolled, And our home be one with the outer air, Heap wrong on wrong! We have had to bear More wrongs than ever our tongues can tell; One right is left us-we still forbear, O England, to use it-the right to rebel! We have borne so much that a little more, You think, may be borne by us unrepaid? And our backs must bow as they bowed before, While on quivering flesh are the lashes laid? O England, are you never afraid Of us you have tortured so long and so well? Do you never doubt which the Fates would aid- Of us or you-if we rose to rebel? Do you ne... (From : AnarchyArchives.)