Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvi

Hence-(b) (also to ring into). To introduce or bring in or into. [Slang.] They want to ring me into it [the performance of Bulwer's "Money "], but I do not see anything in it I can do. Lester Wallack , Memories (Scribner's Mag., IV. 723). To ring the change, to swindle in the changing of money by a complicated system of changing and rechanging, in order to produce confusion and deception. - To ring the changes. See change . - To ring the hallowed bell. See bell1 . To ring up, to summon or rouse by the ringing of a bell: as, to ring up a person at the telephone; to ring up a doctor in the middle of the night. [Colloq.]