A‐lar″um (?; 277), n. [OE. alarom, the same word as alarm, n.] See Alarm.
☞ The variant form alarum is now commonly restricted to an alarm signal or the mechanism to sound an alarm (as in an alarm clock.)
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.