ring streaked, ringstraked

Having circular streaks or lines on the body. "Ile removed the he-goats that were ring - streaked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled."Genesis xxx. 35. IMG:content-0660.png:[graphic] IMG:content-0661.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0662.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To encircle; to surround with, or as with a ring. ( Shakesp .: Henry VI ., Pt . I., iv. 4.) 2. To fit with a ring, as the finger, or the snout of swine. " Ring these fingers with thy household worms." Shakesp.: King John, iii. 4. 13. To wed by a marriage ring. "Born of a true man and a ringed wife."-Tennyson. II. Technically: 1. Hort .: Τo cut out a ring of bark from, so as to obstruct the sap. 2. Manége : To exercise, as a horse, by causing to run round in a ring while being held by a long rein; to lunge. "A fine horse they were ringing . " Mi Edge worth: Helen, ch. vi. B. In trans.: To form a circle; to circle, to cluster; to rise spirally in the air, as a falcon. ( Spenser : F. Q., vi. Introd.) To ring a quoit : To pitch it so as it will encircle the pin. ring (2), *ryng (pa.t.rang , * rong , pa. par. rung ), v. t. & i. [A. S. hringan =to clash, to ring; cognate with Dutch ringen ; Icel. hringja ; Dan. ringe ; Sw. ring a=to ring; Icel. hrang =a din; Lat. clangor .] A. Transitive : 1. To cause to sound, as a sonorous metallic body, by striking, or causing to be struck by some body. 2. To produce by ringing, as a sound or peal. 3. To attend on, celebrate, proclaim, or usher in by ringing. "No mournful bell shall ring her funeral." Shakesp.: Titus Andronicus , v. 3. 4. To cause to sound loudly. " Ring a hunter's peal." Shakesp.. Titus Andronicus, ii. 2. 5. To utter sonorously; to repeat loudly, often, or earnestly; to proclaim, to celebrate; as, to ring one's praises. IMG:content-0663.png:[blocks in formation] 3475 4. To sound, to resound. "Our fields rejoice, our mountains ring." Words worth: Feast of Brougham Castle. 5. To be filled, as with repori, fame, or talk; as, The world rings with his praises. 6. To be famous or celebrated; to resound. "Fairfax, whose name in arms through Europe rings." Milton: Sonnet 15. 1. To ring changes upon: (1) Lit .: To produce alternated or varied peals on. (2) Fig .: Το use variously, or in various senses. "The whole seems to amount to a little more than the ringing of changes upon the word nece ity." - Water land: Works , iv. 429. 2. To ring down : To conclude; to end at once; from the theatrical custom of ringing a bell to give notice for the fall of the curtain. 3. To ring the bells backward : To sound the chimes in the reverse order. (It was done as a signal of alarm, danger, or fire.) 4. To ring the changes : [CHANGE, S. 1.] ringed, a . [Eng. ring (1), s.; -ed.] I. Ordinary Language : riolite 2. The leader of a faction, or any a ociation of men engaged in any illegal enterprise, as rioters, mutineers, or the like. ring-lět, s . [Eng. ring (1), s.; dim in. suff. -let .) I. Ordinary Language : 1. A little ring. Who first Uly es' wonderous bow shall bend, And through twelve ringlets the fleet arrow send." Pope : Homer's Ody ey, xxi. 76. 2. A little circle; a fairy ring. "When fairies in their ringlets there Do dance their nightly rounds." Drayton: Quest of Cynthia. 3. A curl, particularly of hair. "Such wavy ringlets o'er his shoulders flow." Pope : Homer's Ody ey, ίν. 202. II. Entom.: Hipparch i a hyper an thus, a European satyr, with sooty-brown wings, having black spots with white centers. Larva feeds on various gra es. The perfect insect appears in July. The Marsh-ringlet is Can ony mph a davus , Rothlieb's Marsh-ringlet is the variety rothliebii , and the Small Ringlet, Erebia epiphron ; all three are rivulet moths. ( Newman .) ring-lět-ěd, adj. [Eng. ringlet; -ed.] Adorned 1. Surrounded with, or as with a ring or rings; with ringlets; wearing ringlets; worn in ringlets. encircled. 2. Covered with, or as with rings. "The surface of the water was ringed all over."-Field, Oct. 17, 1885. II. Bot .: Annulated (q. v.). *ringed-animals, s. pl . Zool.: The Annulosa (q. v.). ringed-carpet, s. ring-wõrm, s. [Eng. ring (1), s., and worm. ] 1. Pathol .: Tinea tonsurans , an affection of the hair, scalp, chin, or neck, usually circular, caused by a white parasitic fungus, A chorion lebertii ( Tri cho phyton tonsurans). Ringworm of the beard is known as Tinea sycosis , and of the body as circina tus. The removal of the hair, and the application of sulphurous acid and glycerine or iodine are among the most effective remedies. [HONEYCOMB Entom.: A European geometer-moth, Boarmia RINGWORM, PLICA.] cinctaria. ringed-plover, s. [RING-DOTTEREL.] ringed-seal, s. Zoology: Phoca hispid a (or fætid a ), the genus Pagomys of Gray. Called also Fætid Seal, and Fjord Seal. ringed-snake, s. 2. Zool.: The genus Iulus. ( Swains on.) ringworm-shrub, s. Bot .: Ca ia alata .