Obs. exc. dial. Also 8 larom. [f. LARUM sb.]
† 1. trans. a. To sound forth loudly. b. To alarm. Obs.
1595. P. T. G., trans. Blanchardine, II. Ded. Hauing presumed to tune my rustic stringes to larum foorth my simple musicke.
1758. S. Thompson, Diary, 21 July (1896), 12. At prayer this evening we were Laromed by a false outcry.
2. intr. † a. To rush down with loud cries (obs.).
b. ‘To talk incessantly’ (Holderness Gloss., 1877).
1728. Pope, Dunc., III. 158. Down, down they larum, with impetuous whirl, The Pindars and the Miltons of a Curl.
