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Ring (rĭng), v. t. [imp. Rang (răng) or Rung (rŭng); p. p. Rung; p. pr. & vb. n. Ringing.] [AS. hringan; akin to Icel. hringja, Sw. ringa, Dan. ringe, OD. ringhen, ringkelen. √19.] 1. To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.
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2. To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.
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The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums,
Hath rung night's yawning peal.
Shak.
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3. To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
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To ring a peal, to ring a set of changes on a chime of bells. -- To ring the changes upon. See under Change. -- To ring in or To ring out, to usher, attend on, or celebrate, by the ringing of bells; as, to ring out the old year and ring in the new. Tennyson. -- To ring the bells backward, to sound the chimes, reversing the common order; -- formerly done as a signal of alarm or danger. Sir W. Scott.
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Ring, v. i. 1. To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one.
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Now ringen trompes loud and clarion.
Chaucer.
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Why ring not out the bells?
Shak.
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2. To practice making music with bells. Holder.
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3. To sound loud; to resound; to be filled with a ringing or reverberating sound.
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With sweeter notes each rising temple rung.
Pope.
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The hall with harp and carol rang.
Tennyson.
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My ears still ring with noise.
Dryden.
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4. To continue to sound or vibrate; to resound.
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The assertion is still ringing in our ears.
Burke.
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5. To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings with his fame.
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Ring, n. 1. A sound; especially, the sound of vibrating metals; as, the ring of a bell.
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2. Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
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The ring of acclamations fresh in his ears.
Bacon
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3. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
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As great and tunable a ring of bells as any in the world.
Fuller.
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Ring (?), n. [AS. hring, hrinc; akin to Fries. hring, D. & G. ring, OHG. ring, hring, Icel. hringr, DAn. & SW. ring; cf. Russ. krug'. Cf. Harangue, Rank a row,Rink.] A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a circular line or hoop.
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2. Specifically, a circular ornament of gold or other precious material worn on the finger, or attached to the ear, the nose, or some other part of the person; as, a wedding ring.
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Upon his thumb he had of gold a ring.
Chaucer.
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The dearest ring in Venice will I give you.
Shak.
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3. A circular area in which races are or run or other sports are performed; an arena.
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Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring,
Where youthful charioteers contend for glory.
E. Smith.
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4. An inclosed space in which pugilists fight; hence, figuratively, prize fighting. “The road was an institution, the ring was an institution.” Thackeray.
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5. A circular group of persons.
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And hears the Muses in a ring
Aye round about Jove's alter sing.
Milton.
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6. (Geom.) (a) The plane figure included between the circumferences of two concentric circles. (b) The solid generated by the revolution of a circle, or other figure, about an exterior straight line (as an axis) lying in the same plane as the circle or other figure.
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7. (Astron. & Navigation) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
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8. (Bot.) An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of Sporangium.
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9. A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute offices, obtain contracts, etc.
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The ruling ring at Constantinople.
E. A. Freeman.
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Ring armor, armor composed of rings of metal. See Ring mail, below, and Chain mail, under Chain. -- Ring blackbird (Zo&ö;l.), the ring ousel. -- Ring canal (Zo&ö;l.), the circular water tube which surrounds the esophagus of echinoderms. -- Ring dotterel, or Ringed dotterel. (Zo&ö;l.) See Dotterel, and Illust. of Pressiroster. -- Ring dropper, a sharper who pretends to have found a ring (dropped by himself), and tries to induce another to buy it as valuable, it being worthless. -- Ring fence. See under Fence. -- Ring finger, the third finger of the left hand, or the next the little finger, on which the ring is placed in marriage. -- Ring formula (Chem.), a graphic formula in the shape of a closed ring, as in the case of benzene, pyridine, etc. See Illust. under Benzene. -- Ring mail, a kind of mail made of small steel rings sewed upon a garment of leather or of cloth. -- Ring micrometer. (Astron.) See Circular micrometer, under Micrometer. -- Saturn's rings. See Saturn. -- Ring ousel. (Zo&ö;l.) See Ousel. -- Ring parrot (Zo&ö;l.), any one of several species of Old World parrakeets having a red ring around the neck, especially Palæornis torquatus, common in India, and Palæornis Alexandri of Java. -- Ring plover. (Zo&ö;l.) (a) The ringed dotterel. (b) Any one of several small American plovers having a dark ring around the neck, as the semipalmated plover (Ægialitis semipalmata). -- Ring snake (Zo&ö;l.), a small harmless American snake (Diadophis punctatus) having a white ring around the neck. The back is ash-colored, or sage green, the belly of an orange red. -- Ring stopper. (Naut.) See under Stopper. -- Ring thrush (Zo&ö;l.), the ring ousel. -- The prize ring, the ring in which prize fighters contend; prize fighters, collectively. -- The ring. (a) The body of sporting men who bet on horse races. [Eng.] (b) The prize ring.
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Ring, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ringed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Ringing.] 1. To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle. “Ring these fingers.” Shak.
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2. (Hort.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.
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3. To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout.
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Ring, v. i. (Falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
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