tocsin : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: tocsin	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for tocsin
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tocsin n the sound of an alarm (usually a bell) [syn: tocsin, alarm bell] a bell used to sound an alarm Synonym(s): tocsin, warning bell
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tocsin \Toc"sin\, n. [F., fr. OF. toquier to touch, F. toquer (originally, a dialectic form of F. toucher) + seint (for sein) a bell, LL. signum, fr. L. signum a sign, signal. See {Touch}, and {Sign}.] An alarm bell, or the ringing of a bell for the purpose of alarm. The loud tocsin tolled their last alarm. --Campbell.