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Webster 1913 Edition

Knell

Knell

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Knelled
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Knelling
.]
[OE.
knellen
,
knillen
, As.
cnyllan
. See
Knell
,
Noun.
]
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.

Knell

,
Verb.
T.
To summon, as by a knell.
Each matin bell, the baron saith,
Knells
us back to a world of death.
Coleridge.

Webster 1828 Edition

Knell

KNELL

,
Noun.
nell. Properly, the stroke of a bell; hence,the sound caused by striking a bell; appropriately and perhaps exclusively, the sound of a bell rung at a funeral; a tolling.

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