alarum
n. archaic = ALARM.
Phrases and idioms:
alarums and excursions joc. confused noise and bustle.
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alarum
A variant of
alarm, formerly used in all the senses of the word, but now restricted,
exc. in poetical use, to the peal or chime of a warning bell or clock, or the mechanism which produces it: see
alarm n. 5, 7.
Useful english dictionary.
2012.