Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Ringed"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ringed \Ringed\, a.
1. Encircled or marked with, or as with, a ring or rings.
2. Wearning a wedding ring; hence, lawfully wedded. ``A
ringed wife.'' --Tennyson.
{Ringed seal} (Zo["o]l.), a North Pacific seal ({Phoca
f[oe]tida}) having ringlike spots on the body.
{Ringed snake} (Zo["o]l.), a harmless European snake
({Tropidonotus natrix}) common in England.
{Ringed worm} (Zo["o]l.), an annelid.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
2. (Hort.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to
girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.
3. To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a
swine's snout.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
ringed
adj 1: shaped like a ring [syn: {annular}, {annulate}, {annulated},
{circinate}, {circular}, {ring-shaped}]
2: wearing a wedding ring; lawfully married; "a ringed wife"-
Tennyson
3: adorned or crowned with a circlet; sometimes used as
combining forms; "a brow encircled with laurel"; "wreathed
in an extraordinary luminescence"; "ringed round with
daisies"; "smoke-wreathed" [syn: {encircled}, {wreathed}]
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