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Ringed   /rɪŋd/   Listen
verb
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 & past part. ringed; pres. part. ringing)  (Falconry) To rise in the air spirally.


adjective
Ringed  adj.  
1.
Encircled or marked with, or as with, a ring or rings.
2.
Wearning a wedding ring; hence, lawfully wedded. "A ringed wife."
Ringed seal (Zool.), a North Pacific seal (Phoca foetida) having ringlike spots on the body.
Ringed snake (Zool.), a harmless European snake (Tropidonotus natrix) common in England.
Ringed worm (Zool.), an annelid.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Ringed" Quotes from Famous Books



... are extinguished with our consciousness of them, it contracts still further: the whole scope of observation is dwarfed into the narrow chamber of the individual mind. Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without. Every one of those impressions is the impression of the individual in his isolation, ...
— The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry • Walter Horatio Pater
... Danes themselves were sometimes called the "Ring-Danes," clad in ringed (or a ring of) armor, or possessing rings. ...
— Beowulf • James A. Harrison and Robert Sharp, eds.
... coral and limestone plateau, flat to undulating; ringed by vertical white cliffs (9 to 15 ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency
... a night of white moonlight and a multitude of stars. The four great fires over which the caribou had roasted for the savage barbecue that day were still burning brightly. In the edge of the forest that ringed in the Post were the smouldering embers of a score of smaller fires. Back of these fires were faintly outlined the gray shadows of teepees and tents. In these shelters the three hundred halfbreeds and Indians who had come in from the forest trails to the New Year carnival at the ...
— Nomads of the North - A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars • James Oliver Curwood
... the steel cap of the home guard, the ringed neck mail, the close-fitting doublet of blue dotted over with red Douglas hearts and having the white cross of St. Andrew transversely upon it. About his waist was a peaked brace of shining plate armour, damascened in gold by Malise himself, and filling out his almost girlish ...
— The Black Douglas • S. R. Crockett


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