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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ring \Ring\ (r[i^]ng), v. t. [imp. {Rang} (r[a^]ng) or {Rung}
(r[u^]ng); p. p. {Rung}; p. pr & vb n. {Ringing}.] [AS.
hringan akin to Icel. hringja Sw ringa, Dan. ringe, OD
ringhen, ringkelen [root]19.]
1. To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic
body; as to ring a bell.
2. To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.
The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, Hath
rung night's yawning peal. --Shak.
3. To repeat often loudly, or earnestly.
{To ring a peal}, to ring a set of changes on a chime of
bells.
{To ring the changes upon}. See under {Change}.
{To ring in} or {out}, to usher, attend on or celebrate, by
the ringing of bells; as to ring out the old year and
ring in the new --Tennyson.
{To ring the bells backward}, to sound the chimes, reversing
the common order -- formerly done as a signal of alarm or
danger. --Sir W. Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rang \Rang\,
imp. of {Ring}, v. t. & i.
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