Knell /(?)/

1. The stroke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; (figuratively)

   The dead man's knell Is there scarce asked for who.

   The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.

imp. & p. p. Knelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Knelling

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

   Not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee.

   Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, “alone”.

1. To summon, as by a knell.

   Each matin bell, the baron saith, Knells us back to a world of death.