Crossword clues for tocsin
tocsin
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tocsin \Toc"sin\, n. [F., fr. OF. toquier to touch, F. toquer (originally, a dialectic form of F. toucher) + seint (for sein) a bell, LL. signum, fr. L. signum a sign, signal. See Touch, and Sign.] An alarm bell, or the ringing of a bell for the purpose of alarm.
The loud tocsin tolled their last alarm.
--Campbell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"alarm bell," 1580s, from Middle French toquassen "an alarm bell, the ringing of an alarm bell" (late 14c.), from Old Provençal tocasenh, from tocar "to strike" (from Vulgar Latin *toccare "strike a bell;" see touch (v.)) + senh "bell, bell note," from Late Latin signum "bell, ringing of a bell," in Latin "mark, signal" (see sign (n.)). The current English spelling is from 1794, adopted from modern French.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An alarm or other signal sounded by a bell or bells, especially with reference to France. 2 A bell used to sound an alarm.
WordNet
n. the sound of an alarm (usually a bell) [syn: alarm bell]
a bell used to sound an alarm [syn: warning bell]
Wikipedia
Tocsin is the second studio album by the post-punk band Xmal Deutschland. It was released in June 1984 on 4AD.
Tocsin may refer to:
- An alarm or other signal sounded by a bell or bells, especially with reference to France, or to the bell itself (see tocsin)
- TOCSIN, the codeword attached by the Royal Observer Corps to any reading on the Bomb Power Indicator after a nuclear strike on the United Kingdom during the Cold War
- Tocsin Bang, the codeword attached by the Royal Observer Corps to any reading on the AWDREY instrument after a nuclear strike on the United Kingdom during the Cold War
- Tocsin (album), the second album of 1980s goth rock band Xmal Deutschland
- Tocsin, Indiana, a small town in the United States
- Exercise Tocsin, name for the nuclear attack simulation performed by the Government of Canada
- the fourth and final movement of the Symphony No. 11 (1957) by Dmitri Shostakovich.
Usage examples of "tocsin".
The last time the population of Zanshaa had heard the sound of the tocsin was when the accelerator ring had been destroyed.
Notre-Dame dans la rumeur des cavalcades et les tocsins pareils aux battements de coeur du soleil.
She was giving him a list of the various types of fish that inhabited the oceans of Pern when the tocsin rang again and her explanation was drowned by shouts as apprentices erupted into the courtyard on their way to the dining hall.
It was the trackers exulting on the trail of the pursued, the prolonged, raucous howl, eager, ominous, vibrating with the alarm of the tocsin, sullen with the heavy muffling note of death.
But Tocsin hammered away at it, equating social conscience with Saturnism and therefore making Megan appear to be, if not a traitor to her planet, at least something of a fellow traveler.
Naturally Tocsin had tried to portray Kenson as incompetent, soft on Saturnism, ultraliberal, filthy rich, and other political crimes.
Rosicrucians, Cabalists, Hussites, Giordanistiheretics who for years had been undermining the power not only of the Habsburgs but of the Pope as wellset the tocsins ringing all over Europe.
As he maneuvered around the lambent little land mine, playing the Shell like a finely tuned instrument, he examined the intricate knot of toxic tocsins with every scanning tool at his disposal.
Its normally decorous sound had been turned up to an earpiercing clangor like that of a warship's tocsin, and that, Arrhae knew, was something H'daen would not normally tolerate.
The Parliament's siren howled and a bell on the Molt barracks clanged a twice-a-second tocsin.
TheParliament 's siren howled and a bell on the Molt barracks clanged a twice-a-second tocsin.
His death appears to have been only the tocsin that aroused other fanatics, and, without our being able to divine or suspect where all these books come from, they have overflowed and deluged the whole land.
But Tocsin hammered away at it, equating social conscience with Saturnism and therefore making Megan appear to be, if not a traitor to her planet, at least something of a fellow traveler.
Tocsin had railed against the bleeding-heart liberalism of his predecessor, equating it with Saturnism.
Before they surmounted the lip of the dingle, a tocsin sounded behind them, hackling the hairs on Pooka's back.