Knelling

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Knell \Knell\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Knelled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Knelling}.] [OE. knellen, knillen, As. cnyllan. See {Knell},
     n.]
     To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or
     funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen.
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           Not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee.
                                                    --Beau. & Fl.
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           Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known,
           Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, "alone".
                                                    --Ld. Lytton.
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