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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 (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. [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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