knell

1. (intransitive) To ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.Examples: "I’ll make thee sick at heart, before I leave thee, And groan, and die indeed, and be worth nothing, Not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee […]"; "“[…] God!—the words of the warlock are knelling in my ears!”"; "The chill rain is falling, the nipt worm is crawling, The rivers are swelling, the thunder is knelling For the year"intransitive

2. (transitive) To signal or proclaim something (especially a death) by ringing a bell.Examples: "Let thy friends be as the dead in doom, And build to them a final tomb; Let the starred shade that nightly falls Still celebrate their funerals, And the bell of beetle and of bee Knell their melodious memory."; "The church bells knelled the peaceful ending of the day, while the purple shades of night descended sadly and majestically on the low chain of neighbouring hills."; "His right hand, clenched into an iron mallet, battered desperately at the fearful face bent toward his; the beast-like teeth shattered under his blows and blood splattered, but still the red eyes gloated and the taloned fingers sank deeper and deeper until a ringing in Turlogh’s ears knelled his soul’s departure."transitive

3. (transitive) To summon by, or as if by, ringing a bell.transitive