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An exclamation, expressive of surprise, pity, complaint, entreaty, contempt, threatening, delight, triumph, etc., according to the manner of utterance.

An exclamation expressing, by different intonations, triumph, mixed with derision or irony, or simple surprise.

An exclamation to call one's attention; hem.

An exclamation expressive of sorrow. [Archaic. or Poet.] Shak.

An exclamation expressing sorrow.

An exclamation expressive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.

An exclamation signifying Praise ye Jehovah. Hence: A song of praise to God. See Hallelujah, the commoner form. I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia. Rev. xix. 1.

ee amidst the garden." "Unseen amid the throng." "Amidst thick clouds." Milton. "Amidst acclamations." "Amidst the splendor and festivity of a court." Macaulay. But rather famish them amid their plenty. Shak.

The act of announcing, or giving notice; that which announces; proclamation; publication.

The act of announcing; announcement; proclamation; as, the annunciation of peace.

of Antioch, in Syria. Antiochian epoch (Chron.), a method of computing time, from the proclamation of liberty granted to the city of Antioch, about the time of the battle of Pharsalia, B.C. 48.

To show approval of by clapping the hands, acclamation, or other significant sign. I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again. Shak.

and praise publicly expressed by clapping the hands, stamping or tapping with the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation. The brave man seeks not popular applause. Dryden.

To drive or scare off by some exclamation. [R.] "Whiskered cats arointed flee." Mrs. Browning.

A proclamation, as of the French kings, calling not only their immediate feudatories, but the vassals of these feudatories, to take the field for war; also, the body of vassals called or liable to be called to arms, as in ancient France.

An exclamation expressive of extreme contempt. Twenty-five years ago the vile ejaculation, Bah! was utterly unknown to the English public. De Quincey.

A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.

To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries. They bark, and say the Scripture maketh heretics. Tyndale. Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed. Fuller.

An animal that barks; hence, any one who clamors unreasonably.

order of Nemertina, including the large leechlike worms (Malacobdella) often parasitic in clams.