4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Knell  \Knell\,  n.  [OE.  knel,  cnul,  AS  cnyll  fr  cnyllan  to 
  sound  a  bell;  cf  D.  &  G.  knallen  to  clap,  crack,  G.  &  Sw 
  knall  a  clap,  crack,  loud  sound,  Dan.  knalde  to  clap,  crack. 
  Cf  {Knoll},  n.  &  v.] 
  The  stoke  of  a  bell  tolled  at  a  funeral  or  at  the  death  of  a 
  person;  a  death  signal;  a  passing  bell;  hence  figuratively, 
  a  warning  of  or  a  sound  indicating,  the  passing  away  of 
  anything 
 
  The  dead  man's  knell  Is  there  scarce  asked  for  who 
  --Shak. 
 
  The  curfew  tolls  the  knell  of  parting  day  --Gray. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Knell  \Knell\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Knelled};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Knelling}.]  [OE.  knellen,  knillen,  As  cnyllan  See  {Knell}, 
  n.] 
  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Knell  \Knell\,  v.  t. 
  To  summon,  as  by  a  knell. 
 
  Each  matin  bell,  the  baron  saith,  Knells  us  back  to  a 
  world  of  death.  --Coleridge. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  knell 
  n  :  the  sound  of  a  bell  rung  slowly  to  announce  a  death  or  a 
  funeral  or  the  end  of  something 
  v  1:  ring,  as  of  bells  announcing  death 
  2:  make  ring,  as  of  bells  etc.;  "Ring  the  bells"  [syn:  {ring}] 

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