Tocsin

Noun

 * 1) An alarm or other signal sounded by a bell or bells, especially with reference to France.
 * 2) * 1804, The Times, 23 Aug 1804, p.3 col. C
 * At half-past one, on the sounding of the tocsin (or bell of the public-house) about fifteen persons were collected, when the Rev. J. Bromley was called to the chair.
 * 1) * 1970, JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition:
 * As she entered the projection theatre the soundtrack reverberated across the sculpture garden, a melancholy tocsin modulated by Talbert’s less and less coherent commentary.
 * 1) * 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 281:
 * I'll ring the tocsin, I'll have Saint-Antoine out. I can put twenty thousand armed men on the streets, just like that.
 * 1) A bell used to sound an alarm.

Thesaurus
Klaxon, Mayday, SOS, air-raid alarm, alarm, alarm bell, alarm clock, alarm signal, alarum, alert, all clear, beacon, blinking light, burglar alarm, buzzer, crostarie, fiery cross, fire alarm, fire bell, fire flag, five-minute gun, flashing light, fog bell, fog signal, foghorn, gale warning, hooter, horn, hue and cry, hurricane warning, lighthouse, note of alarm, occulting light, police whistle, sign, signal, signal of distress, siren, small-craft warning, still alarm, storm cone, storm flag, storm warning, two-minute gun, upside-down flag, whistle

Etymology
From toquesain (modern tocsin), from  tocasenh, from tocar ‘strike, touch’ + senh ‘bell’.

Translations

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Anagrams

 * tonics

Noun

 * 1) an alarm, a tocsin

Etymology
From toquesain, from  tocasenh, from tocar ‘strike, touch’ + senh ‘bell’.

Anagrams

 * citons, tonics