larum

[ lar-uh m ]

/ ˈlær əm /

noun

alarum.

Nearby words

larry car, lars, larsa, larsen ice shelf, lartigue, larum, larva, larva currens, larva migrans, larval, larval therapy

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for larum

If you hang back, we will raise such a 'larum about your ears that you shan't know that your wife's your own for a month to come!'
Roughing it in the Bush|Susanna Moodie
This morning about seven oclock we had a larum that the Regulars were gone to Concord.
The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume I (of 2)|Hazard Stevens
She had a striking clock, another watch, and a "larum that does not strike."
The Old Furniture Book|N. Hudson Moore
We sung, hooped, hallowd, jubilled—set the cennell of hounds all in a larum.
Brief Lives (Vol. 2 of 2)|John Aubrey

Larum here seems to be tautological, perhaps a scribal error.
Genesis A|Anonymous

British Dictionary definitions for larum

larum

/ (ˈlærəm) /

noun

an archaic word for alarm

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012