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noun 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." "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day."
verb Knell v. t. To summon, as by a knell. "Each matin bell, the baron saith, Knells us back to a world of death."
Knell v. i. (past & past part. knelled; pres. part. 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." "Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, "alone"."
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