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▪ I. † larm, n. Obs.
Also 6–7 larme.
[Aphetic form of alarm n. Cf. larum and G. lärm noise.]
= alarm n. 4. Also to blow, ring a larm.
1530Palsgr. 237/2 Larme in a felde, alarme. 1557Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 198 Then come they to the larme, then shew they in the fielde. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 65 Therfore he ryngeth a larme and admonysheth all men to [etc.]. 1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Cano, Bellicum canere,..to blowe a larme. 1581J. Studley Seneca's Hercules Œtæus 216 To thumpe vppon thy sounding breast thy griefe with doleful larmes. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. xi. 2 To change my oaten quill For trumpet 'larms.
†b. attrib. larm-list, ? a body of firemen or militia. U.S. Obs.
1779Hist. Pelham, Mass. (1898) 133 Voted that the Arms..be sold at Public Vendue to the Highest Bidder, None to bide But the training band and Larm list.
▪ II. larm, v. Obs. rare—1.
[Aphetic form of alarm v.]
trans. To alarm.
1758S. Thompson Diary 20 July (1896) 11 In the morning 10 men in a scout waylaid by the Indians, and shot at and larmed the Fort. |