A musical summons to war (poet.). Also fig.
1805. Scott, Last Minstrel, III. xxvi. The Warder … blew his war-note loud and long.
1816. Byron, Ch. Har., III. xxvi. Wild and high the ‘Cameron’s gathering’ rose, The war-note of Lochiel.
1897. Edin. Rev., Oct., 399. The old war-note of strife for strife’s sake has lost something, if not all, of its relentless and brutal barbarities.
