intransitive verb. To ring slowly and solemnly, especially for a funeral; toll.

intransitive verb. To give forth a mournful or ominous sound.

intransitive verb. To signal, summon, or proclaim by tolling.

noun. The sound of a bell knelling; a toll.

noun. A signal of disaster or destruction.

To strike; knock.

To toll, as a bell; ring for or at a funeral; knoll.

To summon by or as if by a knell.

To sound, as a bell, especially as a funeral bell.

Hence To sound as an omen or a warning of coming evil.

noun. The sound caused by striking a bell; especially, the sound of a bell rung with solemn slowness at or for a funeral; a passing-bell.

noun. The stroke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell

intransitive verb. To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen.

transitive verb. To summon, as by a knell.

verb. to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.

verb. to signal or proclaim something by ringing a bell.

noun. the sound of a bell knelling; a toll.

verb. ring as in announcing death

verb. make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification

noun. the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something

"When they had gone from house to house and collected all the money they could, they laid the wren on a bier and carried it in procession to the parish churchyard, where they made a grave and buried it "with the utmost solemnity, singing dirges over her in the Manks language, which they call her knell; after which Christmas begins.""

death knell  knelled  knelling  

bell  peal  ring  toll  

Adel  Adele  Bel  Bell  Belle  

carillon  dirge  gong  tolling  

annihilation  bane  bell  bemoan  bewail  

knelled  knelling  knells