alarm vs tocsin

alarm and tocsin both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
alarm	Yes	No	Yes	No
tocsin	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, tocsin is a hyponym of alarm; that is, tocsin is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than alarm:

alarm (noun)	tocsin (noun)
a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event	a bell used to sound an alarm
a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time	the sound of an alarm (usually a bell)
an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
fear resulting from the awareness of danger

alarm (verb)	tocsin (verb)
warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness
fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised