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KNELL
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English
English : variant of Knell.German and Swiss German : variant of Knell.
Male
Arthurian
, (a knell); Percevel's grandfather.
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English
English : topographic name for someone living by a knoll or hilltop, from Middle English knelle (Old English cnyll(e), cnell(e), a derivative of Old English cnoll), or a habitational name from a minor place named with this word, for example Knell or Knelle in Sussex.South German : from Middle High German knellen ‘to cause to explode’, ‘to snap one’s fingers’, hence a nickname for a noisy, loud-mouthed person, or in Swabia and Bavaria for someone who cursed a lot.
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p. pr. & vb. n.
of Knell
v. t.
To ring, as a bell; to strike a knell upon; to toll; to proclaim, or summon, by ringing.
a.
Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar size, viz., twenty-right or twenty-nine inches by thirty-six; -- so called because that size was adopted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits he painted of the members of the Kitcat Club.
v. t.
To summon, as by a knell.
imp. & p. p.
of Knell
v. i.
To sound, as a bell; to knell.
n.
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.
n.
To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen.
n.
The tolling of a bell; a knell.