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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. 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.

Rung v. Imp. & p. p. of Ring.

noun

Rung n.

1.

(Shipbuilding) A floor timber in a ship.

2.

One of the rounds of a ladder.

3.

One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.

4.

(Mach.) One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel; also, one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

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"Rung" Quotes from Famous Books

... her tongue at his muffled form and crept under the quilts that remained on the bunk. By and by the moonlight appeared through the window. The stove grew cold. The howling of the coyotes circled nearer and nearer. Suddenly a rifle-shot rung out, then another. The shots did not waken the sleeping boy and girl, but the mule brayed and began to kick with the rapidity of machine-gun fire. They both jumped up and ran out. The mule was just disappearing ...

— Judith of the Godless Valley • Honore Willsie

... not ill at all. I am a martyr to thy imagination. Dost remember the time, Janet, I drowsed in the chapel and thou didst make me drink bitterwort for a fortnight?" and the girl's voice rung out in ...

— Mistress Penwick • Dutton Payne

... receive and obey orders; but gentry should be graciously notified that all was ready, when it suited their pleasure to eat; and from the day of Sam's departure, the House was honoured with a sing-song: "Din-ner! Boss! Mis-sus!" at midday, with changes rung at "Bress-fass" or "Suppar"; and no written menu being at its service, Cheon supplied a chanted one, so that before we sat down to the first course we should know all others that were ...

— We of the Never-Never • Jeanie "Mrs. Aeneas" Gunn

... Professor's, I was hot and splashed, and my umbrella had a large rent in it. The door of the house was open, and I saw a notice hanging on the side of the wall which told me to walk up-stairs. What I was to do when I had walked up-stairs puzzled me, so I went back into the street, and having rung a bell as a sort of announcement that some one was coming, I went up slowly. The house seemed to be full of stuffiness and gloom, so much so that had I been unable to find either the Professor or his son, I should not have been at all sorry. I was, ...

— Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate • Charles Turley

... she heard it rise and swell, Tolled by the iron steamer's bell; Told by the mocking voice of Fate, Rung through her ...

— Daisy Dare, and Baby Power - Poems • Rosa Vertner Jeffrey

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