Meaning of Clarion | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal; related to the trumpet, it had a narrow, straight pipe and a high-pitched, piercing sound.
   historical, poetic
2. An unincorporated community in Bureau County, Illinois, United States.
3. The sound of a clarion (sense 1), or any sound resembling the loud, high-pitched note of a clarion.
   broadly, poetic
4. A city, the county seat of Wright County, Iowa, United States.
5. An organ stop consisting of pipes with reeds giving a high-pitched note like that of a clarion (sense 1).
   broadly
6. A borough, the county seat of Clarion County, Pennsylvania, United States.
7. The middle register of the clarinet.
   broadly
8. A ghost town in Sanpete County, Utah, United States.
9. A charge thought to represent a type of wind instrument, a keyboard instrument like a spinet, or perhaps a rest used by a knight to support a lance during jousting.
10. A river in Pennsylvania, a tributary of the Allegheny River.

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Examples

“The clarion’s call⟳ to action has been heard.”

“Then ſtrait commands that at the warlike ſound / Of Trumpets loud and Clarions be upreard / His mighty Standard; […]”

“And like⟳ a silver clarion rung / The accents of that unknown tongue, / Excelsior!”

“There is no bard in all the choir, / Nor Homer's self, the poet sire, / […] / Nor Collins' verse of tender pain, / Nor Byron's clarion of disdain, / […] / Not one of all can put⟳ in verse, / Or to this presence could rehearse, / The sights and voices ravishing / The boy knew on the hills in spring⟳, […]”

“Blind me, take⟳ away mine eyes, and let⟳ the darkness utterly fence me in, and still mine ears would catch⟳ the tone of thy unforgotten voice, striking more loud against the portals of my sense⟳ than can the call⟳ of brazen-throated clarions:– […]”

“Others [i.e., other birds] on ground / Walk'd firm; the creſted Cock whoſe clarion ſounds / The ſilent hours, and th' other whoſe gay Traine / Adorns him, colour'd with the Florid hue / Of Rainbows and Starrie Eyes.”

“And his this Drum, vvhoſe hoarſe heroic baſe / Drovvns the loud Clarion of the braying Aſs.”

“The cock's ſhrill clarion, or the ecchoing horn, / No more ſhall rouſe them from their lovvly bed.”

“[K]indling Nations buckle on their mail, / And Fame, with clarion-blast and wings unfurl'd, / To freedom and revenge awakens an injured World!”

“O chanticleer, / Your clarion blow⟳; the day is near.”

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