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alarum
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alarum \A*lar"um\ (?; 277), n. [OE. alarom, the same word as alarm, n.] See Alarm. [Now Poetic]
Note: The variant form alarum is now commonly restricted to an alarm signal or the mechanism to sound an alarm (as in an alarm clock.)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
obsolete and poetic spelling of alarm (n.).
Wiktionary
n. A danger signal or warning. vb. (context archaic English) To sound alarums, to sound an alarm.
WordNet
n. an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger [syn: alarm, alert, warning signal]
Wikipedia
Alarum are an Australian progressive metal and technical death metal band which formed in 1992. Their first album, Fluid Motion, was self-released in 1998. The second album, Eventuality..., was released in Australia and United States on Willowtip Records in October 2004 and in Europe on Earache Records in June 2005. From April to June 2006 Alarum toured US with Necrophagist, Arsis, Cattle Decapitation and Neuraxis. They followed with shows in the United Kingdom and Ireland with Obituary. The group's third album, Natural Causes, was issued in Australia and US in October 2011 and in Europe in January 2012. Alarum are currently working on a fourth album.
Usage examples of "alarum".
I observed with pleasure that the clock in the alcove had an alarum, for I was beginning, in spite of love, to be easily influenced by the power of sleep.
These delightful labours occupied the remainder of the night until the alarum warned us that it was time to part.
Unfortunately, sleep had conquered her before your departure, and she only woke when the alarum struck, too late to detain you, for you had rushed with the haste of a man who is flying from some terrible danger.
The cannon-fire was not followed by the alarum bells, so they knew Bluto was just sending a few balls arcing through the night to remind the Turks he was there.
After several seconds another sound cut through the rain: the strident clangor of the alarum bells in the tower of St.
If Death to Vermin -- or their stooges -- had spotted them, a simple alarum would have served.
Drums, strike alarum, raise them from their sport, And ring aloud the knell of Gaveston!
Can you sniff around for alarum glamours, sentinels, booby-traps, that kind of thing?
And immediately after her prayer breaks forth, soars upward in a shrill nasal falsetto, like a morning alarum when the hour for waking has come, the mechanical noise of a spring let go and running down.
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
The alarum bell now rung out the signal to that part of theclan without the walls, and they immediately poured upon the enemy, who, confounded by this unexpected attack, had scarcely time to defend themselves.
They had manned them both, and planted their ordinance for that present, and sudden alarum vvithout the gate, and also some troopes of small shot in Ambuscado vpon the hievvay side.
Murder most foul, alarums and excursions, theft, buggery, barratry, incomplete perfusion!
It staggered toward the door, trailing a smear of slime, beginning to feel the first alarums from its brain, demanding oxygen.
The effort sucked oxygen from its blood, and by the time it reached the first crossbeam the alarums in its brain were urgent.