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Ring \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 \Ring\ (r[i^]ng), v. t. [imp. {Rang} (r[a^]ng) or {Rung}
(r[u^]ng); p. p. {Rung}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ringing}.] [AS.
hringan; akin to Icel. hringja, Sw. ringa, Dan. ringe, OD.
ringhen, ringkelen. [root]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 \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 \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} (Zool.), the ring ousel.

{Ring canal} (Zool.), the circular water tube which surrounds
the esophagus of echinoderms.

{Ring dotterel}, or {Ringed dotterel}. (Zool.) 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}. (Zool.) See {Ousel}.

{Ring parrot} (Zool.), any one of several species of Old
World parrakeets having a red ring around the neck,
especially {Palaeornis torquatus}, common in India, and
{Palaeornis Alexandri} of {Java}.

{Ring plover}. (Zool.)
(a) The ringed dotterel.
(b) Any one of several small American plovers having a
dark ring around the neck, as the semipalmated plover
({Aegialitis semipalmata}).

{Ring snake} (Zool.), 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} (Zool.), 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.
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(b) The prize ring.
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Ring \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 \Ring\, v. i. (Falconry)
To rise in the air spirally.
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