n. A circular body with a comparatively large central circular opening.n. Hence— A circular group; a circular disposition of persons or things.n. One of the circular layers of wood acquired periodically by many growing trees. See annual ring, below.n. In geometry: The area or space between two concentric circles.n. An anallagmatic surface; an anchor-ring.n. A circle or circular line.n. A limiting boundary; compass.n. A constantly curving line; a helix.n. A circular or oval or even square area; an arena.n. The inclosure in which pugilists fight, usually a square area marked off by a rope and stakes.n. The betting-arena on a race-course.n. The space in which horses are exhibited or exercised at a cattle-show or market, or on a public promenade.n. A combination of persons for attaining such objects as the controlling of the market in stocks, or the price of a commodity, or the effecting of personal and selfish (especially corrupt) ends, as by the control of political or legislative agencies.n. In the language of produce-exchanges, a device to simplify the settlement of contracts for delivery, where the same quantity of a commodity is called for by several contracts, the buyer in one being the seller in another, the object of the ring being to fill all contracts by delivery made by the first seller to the last buyer.n. In architecture: A list, cincture, or annulet round a column.n. An archivolt, in its specific sense of the arch proper.n. An instrument formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, etc., consisting of a ring, usually of brass, suspended by a swivel, with a hole in one side, through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude upon the inner graduated concave surface. Compare ring-dial.n. In angling, a guide.n. In anatomy and zoology, an annulus; any circular part or structure like a ring or hoop: as, a tracheal ring (one of the circular hoop-like cartilages of the windpipe); a somitic ring (an annular somite, as one of the segments of a worm); a ring of color.n. In botany, same as annulus.n. A commercial measure of staves, or wood prepared for casks, containing four shocks, or 240 pieces.To be round about in the form of a circle; form a ring about; encircle; encompass; gird.To take a position around; surround; hence, to hem in; specifically, in Australia, to keep (cattle) together, by riding around them in a circle.In the manège, to exercise by causing to run round in a ring while being held by a long rein; lunge.To provide with a ring or rings; mark or decorate with rings; especially, to fit with a metallic ring, as the finger, or as an animal or its nose; also, to furnish with rings, or attach rings to, for the line to run in, as an anglers' rod.To wed with a marriage-ring.In horticulture, to cut out a ring of bark from, as from a branch or root, in order to obstruct the return of the sap and oblige it to accumulate above the part operated on.To ring a quoit, to throw it so that it encircles the pin.To form a ring.To move in rings or in a constantly curving course.To cause (a bell or other sonorous body, usually metallic) to sound, particularly by striking.To produce by or as by ringing, as a sound or peal.To announce or celebrate by ringing; usher with ringing, as of bells; hence, to proclaim or introduce musically: often followed by in or out.To utter sonorously; repeat often, loudly, or earnestly; sound: as, to ring one's praises.Hence— (alsoTo give forth a musical, resonant, and metallic sound; resound, as a bell or other sonorous body when set in sudden vibration by a blow or otherwise: as, the anvil rang.To ring a bell; especially, to give a signal with a bell: as, to ring for a servant or a messenger.To sound loudly and clearly, like the tone of a bell; be distinctly audible: as, the music still rings in our ears.To resound; reverberate; echo.To have the sensation of a continued humming or buzzing sound: as, to make one's head ring.To exercise or follow the art of bell-ringing.To be filled with report or talk: as, the whole town rings with his fame.To be widely heard of or known; be celebrated.n. The sound of a bell or other sonorous body, usually metallic; the sound produced by striking metal; a clang; a peal.n. Any loud sound, or the sounds of numerous voices; sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.n. Characteristic sound.n. A set of bells tuned to each other; a chime, peal, or carillon.n. In salt-making, a fire-brick arch of varying length, placed under the evaporating-pans to temper the heat and so prevent the salt from being burned.n. A circular device, with a lip or flange upon which an elliptical clip called a traveler runs, for twisting and winding the yarn on a bobbin, on a ring-spinning machine.n. A section of tan-bark, usually 4 feet long.n. In cricket, the boundary; the limits of the field of play: so called because in some cases the cricket-field is oval or round.n. In chem., same as closed chain.To circle around (the game) in order to catch the scent: said of a field-dog.In printing, to draw a ring around, as an unmarked change in type, on a proof.To make the best score in shearing sheep. See ringer, 3.