Definition of "larum" [lar•um]

• An alarm. (noun)

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• "His invention has not made so much noise and larum in the world as some others, which have an origin quite as humble and unromantic; but it is one to which we owe no small profit, and a great deal of pleasure; and, as such, we are bound to speak of it with all gratitude and respect."
• "Our board was full of words like larum and girn and ghat and revet."
• "The spry rattle had run on in the same vein of mimicry but for some larum in the antechamber."