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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Ring \Ring\ (r[icr]ng), v. t. [imp. {Rang} (r[acr]ng) or {Rung} (r[ucr]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. 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. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Rang \Rang\, imp. of {Ring}, v. t. & i. | |
