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Ringing   /rˈɪŋɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Ringing  n.  A & n. from Ring, v.
Ringing engine, a simple form of pile driver in which the monkey is lifted by men pulling on ropes.


verb
Ring  v. t.  (past rang; past part. rung; pres. part. ringing)  
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."
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 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..
To ring the bells backward, to sound the chimes, reversing the common order; formerly done as a signal of alarm or danger.


Ring  v. t.  (past & past part. ringed; pres. part. ringing)  
1.
To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle. "Ring these fingers."
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.


Ring  v. i.  (past rang; past part. rung; pres. part. ringing)  
1.
To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one. "Now ringen trompes loud and clarion." "Why ring not out the bells?"
2.
To practice making music with bells.
3.
To sound loud; to resound; to be filled with a ringing or reverberating sound. "With sweeter notes each rising temple rung." "The hall with harp and carol rang." "My ears still ring with noise."
4.
To continue to sound or vibrate; to resound. "The assertion is still ringing in our ears."
5.
To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings with his fame.


Ring  v. i.  (past & past part. ringed; pres. part. ringing)  (Falconry) To rise in the air spirally.





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"Ringing" Quotes from Famous Books



... like varnish, and a half-inch branch snaps off at the lightest tap. If wind and sun open the day together, the eye cannot look steadily at the splendour of this jewelry. The woods are full of the clatter of arms; the ringing of bucks' horns in flight; the stampede of mailed feet up and down the glades; and a great dust of battle is puffed out into the open, till the last of the ice is beaten away and the cleared branches ...
— Letters of Travel (1892-1913) • Rudyard Kipling
... made no comment, and Vane, striding down to the beach, sent a hail ringing across the water. Carroll appeared on the sloop's deck and ...
— Vane of the Timberlands • Harold Bindloss
... me: you must wait and let me think if I perchance can tell you how it happened. Yea, in my ears is a confused noise of trumpet-blasts singing over desolate moors, in my ears and eyes a clashing and clanging of horse-hoofs, a ringing and glittering of steel; drawn-back lips, set teeth, shouts, ...
— The Hollow Land • William Morris
... of chivalrous intrepidity of the Indian prince, with which all Paris is ringing," said the princess, "must surely have touched ...
— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue
... afternoon, while Donal was reading to Arctura in the library, there came a loud ringing of the door-bell. Donal ran to see, and to his great delight, there was mistress Brookes, half ...
— Donal Grant • George MacDonald


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