alarum
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alarum
- /əˈlɑ.ɹəm/ US
Rhymes with -ɑːɹəm
Where it comes from
From Middle English alarom, from Old Italian all'arme (“to arms, to the weapons”), from Latin arma, armorum (“weapons”).
noun alarums · allarum
- A danger signal or warning. These are the only visible luxuries: the rest is the irreducible minimum of poverty's needs: a wretched bed heaped with all sorts of coverings that have any warmth in them, a draped packing case with a basin and jug on it and a little looking glass over it, a chair and table, the refuse of some subu
- A call to arms. Come let vs meet them at the mountain foot, / And with a ſodaine and an hot alarum / Driue all their horſes headlong down the hill.
- An alarm clock. Ten minutes passed by the measure of the battered old alarum on the dresser shelf before the young man returned.
verb alarums · alaruming · alarumed · allarum
- To sound alarums, to sound an alarm. Now o're the one halfe World / Nature ſeemes dead, and wicked Dreames abuſe / The Curtain'd ſleepe: Witchcraft celebrates / Pale Heccats Offrings: and wither'd Murther, / Alarum'd by his Centinell, the Wolfe, / Whoſe howle's his Watch, thus with his ſtealthy pace, / With Tarquins rauiſhing ſides, to
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