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verb

Ring v. t. (past rang; past part. rung; pres. part. ringing)

To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.

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."

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.

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"Ring out" Quotes from Famous Books

... post number four Hal heard three rifle shots ring out. But he paid no heed. Instead he answered the now terrorized wretch ...

— Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks - or, Two Recruits in the United States Army • H. Irving Hancock

... deference with which an English servant usually approaches his master. An English underling's idea of nobility is the man who never by any possibility works with his hands. The fact that Lord Chizelrigg had toiled at the carpenter's bench; had mixed cement in the drawing-room; had caused the anvil to ring out till midnight, aroused no admiration in Higgins's mind. In addition to this, the ancient nobleman had been penuriously strict in his examination of accounts, exacting the uttermost farthing, so the humble ...

— The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont • Robert Barr

... soul is growing secretly and surely as wheat grows in winter. The Christmas bells ring out their music and at first are almost hated, but they break through the shell of sorrow and let in a faint echo of the world's great suffering and the world's great joy. Thus human sympathy is enlarged just a bit. In successive years the music ...

— The Ascent of the Soul • Amory H. Bradford

... A Jubilee! Waft the glad shout across the laughing sea! A Jubilee! A Jubilee! O bells Ring out our ...

— Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. - A Drama. And Other Poems. • Sarah Anne Curzon

... that hour that Hunt in his position as verger once more appeared. The church doors were opened to the community at large, the bells began to ring out a merry and bridal peal, and the inhabitants of the town, the rich and poor alike, filed ...

— The Honorable Miss - A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town • L. T. Meade

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