Definition of "alarums" []

• Plural form of alarum. (noun)
• (rare) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alarum. (verb)

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• "The days went on, with plenty of what Shakespeare called alarums and excursions in the neighbourhood of the great fort, the enemy being constantly making desultory attacks, but only to find Graves's boys and"
• "If the Royalists had, in truth, 'reckoned on 8000 in the North,' or if York had been in danger, soldiers, and not 'alarums' would have been sent into Yorkshire."
• "'The scene,' says Spedding, 'does not change; but' alarums 'are heard, and afterwards a' retreat, 'and on the same field over which that great army has this moment passed, fresh and full of hope, re-appears, with tidings that all is lost, the same man who last left the stage to follow and fight in it. ["