Obs. exc. poet. [f. LARUM sb. + BELL.] = ALARM-BELL.

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1568.  T. Howell, Arb. Amitie (1879), 57. Lest by the way some watchman lay, to ring the larome bell.

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1590.  Spenser, F. Q., II. ix. 25. His larumbell might lowd and wide be hard, When cause requird, but neuer out of time.

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1597.  Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., III. i. 17. O thou dull God, why lyest thou with the vilde, In loathsome Beds, and leau’st the Kingly Couch, A Watch-case, or a common Larum-Bell?

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1609.  Heywood, Brit. Troy, XV. lxxi. The Larum Bels of death on all sides ringing.

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a. 1634.  Chapman, Alphonsus, Plays, 1873, III. 248. Run to the Tow’r and Ring the Larum Bell.

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1813.  Scott, Rokeby, II. xxv. Ring out the castle larum bell!

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