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To restrain a hog by a ring in his nose. 
But then some pence ’twould cost the clowne, 
To yoke and eke to ring them. W. Browne. 
To RING, v. n. To form a circle. 
From the ocean all rivers spring. 
And tribute back repay as to their king : 
Right so from you all goodly virtues well 
Into the rest, which round about you ring. 
To sound as a bell or sonorous metal. 
Ring out, ye crystal spheres, 
And let your silver chime 
Move in melodious time ; 
And let the base of heaven’s deep organ blow. 
No funeral rites nor man in mournful weeds. 
Nor mournful bell shall ring her burial. Shakspeare. 
To practise the art of making music with bells.—Signs 
for communication may be contrived at pleasure : four bells 
admit twenty-four changes in ringing; each change 
may, by agreement, have a certain signification. Holder. 
—To sound ; to resound. — Hercules, missing his page, 
called him by'his name aloud, that all the shore rang of it. 
Bacon. —The particular ringing sound in gold, distinct 
from the sound of other bodies, has no particular name. 
Locke. 
With sweeter notes each rising temple rung , 
A Raphael painted ! and a Vida sung! 
Immortal Vida! Pope. 
To utter as a bell. 
Ere to black Hecat’s summons 
The shard-born beetle, with his drowsy hums, 
Hath rung night’s yawning peal, there shall be done 
A deed of dreadful note. Shakspeare. 
To tinkle. 
My ears still ring with noise; I'm vext to death: 
Tongue-kill’d, and have not yet recover’d breath. Pry den. 
To be filled with a bruit or report.—That profane, atheist¬ 
ical, epicurean rabble, whom the whole nation so rings of, 
are not indeed what they vote themselves, the wisest men in 
the world. South. 
Ri.ng-Bolt, in a Ship, is an iron bolt with an eye at one 
end, in which is fitted a circular ring, and used for various 
purposes; particularly for hooking the tackles, by which 
the cannon of a ship is managed and secured. They are 
driven by the sides of the gun-ports in ships for securing 
the guns; and in the deck for stopping the cable, and are 
therefore called stopper-bolts. The rings are sometimes 
made angular, to receive many turns of lashing; such are 
the ring-bolts driven through the ship’s side along the waist 
for lashing the booms and spare anchors. 
RING-BONE, s. Ring-bone is a hard callous substance 
growing in the hollow circle of the little pastern of a horse, 
just above the coronet: it sometimes grows quite round like 
a ring, and thence it is called the ring-bone. Farrier's 
Diet. 
RI'NGDOVE, s. [rhingelduyve , German.] Pigeons are 
of several sorts, wild and tame; as wood pigeons, dovecot 
pigeons, and ringdoves. Mortimer .—See Columba. 
"RING-HEAD, an engine used in stretching of cloth. 
RING ISLAND, a small island of the United States, near 
the coast of Massachusetts, a little to the east of Newbury 
Port. 
RINGAY a small river of England, in Cheshire. 
RINGELBERGIUS (Joachim-Fortius), vernacularly 
Sterck, an eminent Flemish philosopher and mathematician, 
who flourished in the 16th century, was bom at Antwerp, but 
in what year is not known. He was patronized by the 
Emperor Maximilian I., in whose palace he had an apartment, 
and he there received his first instructions in the rudiments 
of learning. When he was about 17 years of age he was 
sent to the University of Louvain, where he studied the learned 
languages, philosophy, and the mathematical sciences, with 
the greatest assiduity and success. He also discovered a 
genius for the fine arts, particularly painting and engraving. 
In course of time he became a public professor in that Uni¬ 
versity, and taught rhetoric, cosmography, the mathematics, 
and the Greek language, with very high reputation. So 
numerous were the classes which attended his lectures, that 
they frequently occupied his attention twelve hours every 
day for a month together. In the year 1528 he went into 
Germany, and taught the mathematical sciences and the 
Greek tongue in various seminaries of that country. From 
Germany he went to France, where he filled the professor’s 
chair at Paris, Orleans, Bordeaux, and other places. Such 
was his assiduity, that- he often lectured from sun-rise to sun¬ 
set, except during the short space of half an hour, when he 
sat down to dinner. To the closeness of his application, 
however, he fell a victim at a premature age, about the year 
1536, He lived in habits of intimacy and friendship with 
Erasmus, Beraldus, Oporinus, Hyperius; and others of the 
most learned men of his time, and wrote a number of es¬ 
teemed works. Their titles are, “ De Ratione Studii;” “ De 
Usu et Differentiis vocum quarundam apud Latinos;" “ De 
Usu Vocum quae non flectuntur;” “ Grammaticae Grsecas 
Elementa;” “ Dialectica, et Tabulae Dialecticae “ De 
conscnbendis Epistolis lab.;” “ Rhetorica, et quae ad earn 
Spectant;” “ Sententiae ;” “ De Forrnis dicendi Lib.;” “De 
Periodis;” “ Synonyma;” “ Sphaera, sive Institutionum 
Astronomicarum, Lib III.;” “ Cosmographia ;” “ Optica;” 
“ Chaos Mathematicum;” ,e Arithmetica;” “DeHoroscopo;” 
“ Astrologia cum Geomanteia ;” “ Physiognomia, de Urina 
non visa, et Interpretatione Somniorum ;” and “ De Ho- 
mine Lib. cum Epistole quibusdam." The whole of them 
were collected together, and published in one large volume at 
Leyden, in 1531. Moreri. 
RINGENT, adj. \ringeS, Lat.] Patulous or spreading 
open: it is chiefly used of the corolla of plants. 
RI'NGER, s. He who rings. 
R1NGES, in Rural Economy, a provincial term, signify¬ 
ing rows of hay, mown corn, quicks, &c. 
RINGFIELD, a parish of England, in Suffolk; 2 miles 
south-west of Beccles. 
RINGING, s. Art or act of making music with bells. 
—Many other sports there be, as ringing , bowling, &c. 
Burton. 
RINGKIOPING, or Rinkofing, a small town of Den¬ 
mark, in North Jutland, situated on a gulf of the same name. 
It has a deep and secure harbour, but the entrance is difficult, 
on account of sand-banks thrown up by the sea. The prin¬ 
cipal occupation of the inhabitants consists in fishing, and 
in trading to Norway and Holland; 52 miles north-by-west 
of Ripen, and 45 south-west of Wiborg. Lat. 56. 6. N. 
long. 8. 18. E. 
IlINGLAND, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 7 miles 
north-west of Norwich. 
RINGLEADER, s. One who leads the ring in a dance. 
—St. Peter had a primacy of order, such an one as the ring¬ 
leader hath in a dance, as the primipilar centurion had "in 
the legion. Barrow. —-The head of a riotous body.—The 
nobility escaped; the poor people, who had been deluded 
by these ringleaders, w'ere executed. Addison. 
R1NGLEBEN, a small town of Germany, belonging to 
Saxe-Weimar; 6 miles north of Erfurt, and 26 east-north-east 
of Eisenach. Lat. 51. 6. N. loug: 11. 2. E. 
RINGLEBEN, a town of the interior of Germany, in the 
lower county of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. Population 
1000 . 
RINGLET, s. [ ring , with a diminutive termination.] 
A small ring. 
Silver the lintels, deep projecting o’er; 
And gold the ringlets that command the door. Pope. 
A circle. 
Spenser. 
Milton. 
