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Proclamation; announcement; a publishing. [Obs.] Public . . . denunciation of banns before marriage. Bp. Hall.

amellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve.

Loud, confused, harsh noise; a loud, continuous, rattling or clanging sound; clamor; roar. Think you a little din can daunt mine ears Shak. He knew the battle's din afar. Sir W. Scott. The dust and din and steam of town. Tennyson.

Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious. With clamor of voices dissonant and loud. Longfellow.

In Canada, a legal holiday, July lst, being the anniversary of the proclamation of the formation of the Dominion in 1867.

ven; executed; issued; made public; -- used chiefly in the clause giving the date of a proclamation or public act.

ls, takes cognizance of matters relating to honor, arms, and pedigree, and directs the proclamation of peace and war. The court of chivalry was formerly under his jurisdiction, and he is still the head of the herald's office or college of arms.

To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations. "Echoing noise." Blackmore.

A mark (!) used to indicate an exclamation. G. Brown.

An animated or passionate exclamation. The feelings by the ecphonesis are very various. Gibbs.

A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch. It stands as an edict in destiny. Shak. Edict of Nantes (French Hist.), an edict issued…

An exclamation expressing exultation or surprise, etc.

An exclamation expressing delight.

To throw out, as an exclamation; to utter by a brief and sudden impulse; as, to ejaculate a prayer.

The uttering of a short, sudden exclamation or prayer, or the exclamation or prayer uttered. In your dressing, let there be jaculations fitted to the several actions of dressing. Jer. Taylor.

nd to duration; as, an endless line; endless time; endless bliss; endless praise; endless clamor.

Clammy. [Obs.]

nst order, right, or decency; an atrocious crime; flagitious villainy; an atrocity. These clamorous enormities which are grown too big and strong for law or shame. South.

An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.

An exclamatory sentence, or striking reflection, which sums up or concludes a discourse.