2. To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.
The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, Hath
rung night's yawning peal. --Shak.
3. To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
{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 {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.
2. Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound
continued, repeated, or reverberated.
The ring of acclamations fresh in his ears. --Bacon
3. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
As great and tunable a ring of bells as any in the
world. --Fuller.
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.
Upon his thumb he had of gold a ring. --Chaucer.
The dearest ring in Venice will I give you. --Shak.
3. A circular area in which races are or run or other sports
are performed; an arena.
Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring, Where
youthful charioteers contend for glory. --E. Smith.
4. An inclosed space in which pugilists fight; hence,
figuratively, prize fighting. ``The road was an
institution, the ring was an institution.'' --Thackeray.
5. A circular group of persons.
And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's
alter sing. --Milton.
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.
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.
8. (Bot.) An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the
spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of {Sporangium}.
9. A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a
selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute
offices, obtain contracts, etc.
The ruling ring at Constantinople. --E. A.
Freeman.
{Ring armor}, armor composed of rings of metal. See {Ring
mail}, below, and {Chain mail}, under {Chain}.
{Ring blackbird} (Zo["o]l.), the ring ousel.
{Ring canal} (Zo["o]l.), the circular water tube which
surrounds the esophagus of echinoderms.
{Ring dotterel}, or {Ringed dotterel}. (Zo["o]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["o]l.) See {Ousel}.
{Ring parrot} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of Old
World parrakeets having a red ring around the neck,
especially {Pal[ae]ornis torquatus}, common in India, and
{P. Alexandri} of {Java}.
{Ring plover}. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The ringed dotterel.
(b) Any one of several small American plovers having a
dark ring around the neck, as the semipalmated plover
({[AE]gialitis semipalmata}).
{Ring snake} (Zo["o]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["o]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.
Now ringen trompes loud and clarion. --Chaucer.
Why ring not out the bells? --Shak.
2. To practice making music with bells. --Holder.
3. To sound loud; to resound; to be filled with a ringing or
reverberating sound.
With sweeter notes each rising temple rung. --Pope.
The hall with harp and carol rang. --Tennyson.
My ears still ring with noise. --Dryden.
4. To continue to sound or vibrate; to resound.
The assertion is still ringing in our ears. --Burke.
5. To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings
with his fame.
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.
{Pawl bitt} (Naut.), a heavy timber, set abaft the windlass,
to receive the strain of the pawls.
{Pawl rim} or {ring} (Naut.), a stationary metallic ring
surrounding the base of a capstan, having notches for the
pawls to catch in.