Adjacent Words
To ride hardTo ride out
To ride post
To ride roughshod
To ride shank's mare
To ride the stang
To ride to hounds
To rig a purchase
To rig a ship
To rig the capstan
To rig the market
To right a vessel
To right the helm
to rights
To ring a peal
To ring the bells backward
To ring the changes on
To ring the changes upon
To rip out
To roll about
To roll one's r's
To roll one's self
To roll the eye
To rough it
To round in
To round to
To rout out
To ru the hazard
To rub along
To rub down
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Ring Ring (r[i^]ng), v. t. [imp. Rang (r[a^]ng) or Rung (r[u^]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.
