Obs. Also 6–7 larme. [Aphetic form of ALARM sb. Cf. LARUM and G. lärm noise.] Also to blow, ring a larm.
1530. Palsgr., 237/2. Larme in a felde, alarme.
1557. Tottel’s Misc. (Arb.), 198. Then come they to the larme, then shew they in the fielde.
1560. Daus, trans. Sleidane’s Comm., 65. Therfore he ryngeth a larme and admonysheth all men to [etc.].
1565. Cooper, Thesaurus, s.v. Cano, Bellicum canere,… to blowe a larme.
1581. Studley, Seneca’s Hercules Œtæus, 216. To thumpe vppon thy sounding breast thy griefe with doleful larmes.
1633. P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., xi. 2. To change my oaten quill For trumpet ’larms.
b. attrib. larm-list, ? a body of firemen or militia. U.S. Obs.
1779. Hist. Pelham, Mass. (1898), 133. Voted that the Arms … be sold at Public Vendue to the Highest Bidder, None to bide But the training band and Larm list.
