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A circle. 
You demy puppets, that 
By moon-shine do the green ringlets make. 
Whereof the ewe not bites. Shakspeare. 
Never met we, 
Upon the beached 'inargent of the sea, 
To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, 
But with thy brawls thou hast disturb’d our sport. Shakspeare. 
A curl.—With ringlets quaint, and wanton windings 
wove. Milton. 
Her golden tresses — in wanton ringlets wav’d, 
As the vine curls her tendrils. Milton. 
R1NGMER, a parish of England in Sussex; 2| miles east- 
north-east of Lewes. Population 1055. 
RINGMERE PIT, a remarkable pool in the county of 
Norfolk, England, in the form of an amphitheatre, and six or 
seven acres in extent. 
R1NGMORE, a parish of England, in Devonshire; 4 
miles south-by-west of Modbury. 
RUN GO’S TOWN, a post village of the United States, in 
Hunterdon county, New Jersey. 
RING OUZEL, or Amsel. See Turdus Torquatus. 
R1NGSHALL, a parish of England, in Suffolk; 4 miles 
west-south-west of Needham. 
RINGSHE1M, a neat village of the west of Germany, in 
Baden; 2 miles west-by-south of Ettenheim. Population 1100. 
RING-SCALPEL. We have a description and a figure 
of a ring-scalpel, for assisting the delivery of women in child¬ 
birth, by Dr. Thomas Sirnson, in the Medical Essays of 
Edinburgh, vol. v. art. 39. 
RINGSTEAD, a village of England, in Norfolk; Si¬ 
miles rvest-by-south of Burnham Westgate. 
RINGSTEAD, a village of England, on the coast of Dor¬ 
setshire; 2 miles south of Ormington. 
RINGSTEAD, a parish of England, in Northamptonshire; 
2| miles south-by-west of Thrapston. Population 445. 
RINGSTEDT, a petty town of Denmark, in the island of 
Zealand, of great antiquity. The surrounding country, 
though bare and uninviting in appearance, is tolerably 
fertile. Population 700; 30 miles south-west of Copenhagen. 
RI'NGSTREAKED, adj. Circularly streaked.—He 
removed the he-goats that were ringstreaked and spotted, 
and all the she-goats that were speckled. Gen. xxx. 35. 
RI'NGTAIL, s. A kind of kite with a whitish tail. 
Bailey. 
Thou royal ring-tail, fit to fly at nothing. 
But poor men’s poultry. Beaum. and FI. 
The Falco Pygargus, which see. 
Ring-Tail, in a Ship, is a quadrilateral sail, occasionally 
hoisted abaft the after-leech of the boom-mainsails, to which 
the fore-leech is made to correspond. The head is bent to 
a small yard at the outer end of the gaff, and the foot is 
spread on the boom, which is prolonged by a piece lashed 
to the outer end. A triangular sail of this sort is used in 
light favourable winds, extended on a small mast, occasion¬ 
ally erected ,for that purpose on the taffarel of small 
vessels. 
RING WOLD, a parish of England, in Kent; 3 miles 
south-south-west of Deal. 
RING WOOD, a town of America, in Hunterden county; 
25 miles north of Morristown, containing.2C05 inhabitants. 
RINGWOOD, a market town and parish in the hundred 
of Ringwood, New Forest, west division, county of South¬ 
ampton, England, is situated on the eastern bank of the 
river Avon, at the distance of 14 miles west-by-south from 
Southampton, and 90 miles south-west-by-west from Lon¬ 
don. This town is of great antiquity, and is supposed by 
Camden to have been the Regnum of the Romans, which 
others, however, have fixed, with greater probability, at 
Chichester, in Sussex. But whatever it may have been dur¬ 
ing the Roman government it unquestionably attained con¬ 
siderable importance in the time of the Saxons; and in 
Domesday book, it is estimated at a higher value than 
Thuinam, or Christchurch. 
Ringwood is noted for its breweries of strong beer and 
ale. A market is held here on Wednesday, weekly; and 
there are fairs on the 10th of July, and 11th of December. 
The petty sessions for New Forest, west division, are holdeu 
in this town. According to the parliamentary returns of 
1811, the town and parish contained 658 houses, and a po¬ 
pulation of 3269 persons. 
North from Ringwood is the village of Ellingham, where 
formerly was a religious house, founded by William deSa- 
lariis, in the reign of Henry II., and appropriated as a cell to 
the abbey of St. Saviour le Vicompte, in Normandy. When 
the alien priories in this country were dissolved, Henry VI. 
granted Ellingham and its possessions to the college at Eton. 
Some- remains of the buildings of this establishment are. 
supposed to form the nave of the present church, and the 
opinion is certainly not improbable, as it is more ancient 
than the rest of the fabric. The altar-piece here is a painting 
of the Day of Judgment, presented to the parish by the late 
Lord Windsor, whose ancestor, brigadier Windsor, brought 
it from Port St. Mary, in the bay of Cadiz, among the 
trophies of an expedition against that city in the year 1702. 
In the church-yard is a plain stone, to the memory of dame 
Alicia Lisle, whom the blood-thirsty Jeffreys condemned to 
be executed in her old age, on a charge of harbouring 
known rebels in her mansion at Moyles-Court. This man¬ 
sion is still standing, surrounded by a very pleasant, but 
small, park. Its former possessors, the Lisles, were originally 
settled in the Isle of Wight, where they had large estates,' 
and whence they derived their name. Colonel John Lisle, 
husband to the above-mentioned Alicia, was one of the 
judges who passed sentence on king Charles I. and also 
one of the lords commissioners of the great seal during the 
protectorate of Cromwell. On the eve of the restoration 
he fled to the continent, was proscribed by the parliament of 
Charles II., and assassinated at Lausanne, in Switzerland, by 
three villains, hired for that purpose by some of the royal 
family, or their friends. Beauties of England and Wales, 
vol. vi. by John Britton, F. S. A. and E. W. Brayley, 
Lond. 1805. 
RINGWOOD. See Ramapo. 
RINGWORM, s. A circular tetter.—It began with ser¬ 
pigo, making many round spots, such as are generally called 
ringworms. Wiseman. — See Pathology, p. 357,359. 
RINOREA, [a name, but probably bestowed on this 
genus by Aublet, from its native appellation in Guiana.]— 
in botany, a genus of the class pentandria, order monogynia, 
natural order berberides, (Juss.) Generic Character.— 
Calyx: perianth inferior, of one leaf, villous, cloven into 
five oblong, acute segments. Corolla: petals ten, concave, 
ovate, oblong ; the five inner ones smaller; all inserted be¬ 
low the germen. Stamina: filaments five, short, inserted at 
the base of the outer petals; anthers oblong, two-celled, 
with two valves bursting from the base to the top. Pistil: 
germen superior, roundish, villous; style oblong, villous; 
stigma obtuse. Jussieu describes rinorea as having five 
longer petals, each furnished with an inner one at its claw or 
base. Essential Character .—Calyx five-cleft. Petals ten, 
the five inner ones smaller. Style one. Stigma one. 
1. Rinorea guianensis.—Native of cultivated ground in 
Guiana, where it flowered in January.—A tree six or seven 
feet high, whose trunk is branched very thickly, to the very 
summit, in a straight alternate manner. Leaves alternate, 
stalked, ovate-oblong, acute, toothed. Stipulas short, deci¬ 
duous. Flowers wliite, in axillary, teiminal clusters, each 
placed on a short stalk, which is furnished with two scales 
at its base. 
To RINSE, v'. a. [from rein, Germ, pure, clear.] To 
wash ; to cleanse by washing. 
This last costly treaty 
Swallow’d so much treasure, and like a glass 
Did break i’ the rinsing. Shafopeare. 
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