RINED
Rined, a.
Defn: Having a rind [Obs.] Milton.
RINFORZANDO
Rin`for*zan"do, a. Etym: [It., fr. rinfor to reënforce, strengthen.]
(Mus.)
Defn: Increasing; strengthening; — a direction indicating a sudden increase of force (abbreviated rf., rfz.) Cf. Forzando, and Sforzando.
RING
Ring, v. t. [imp. Rang or Rung (; p. p. Rung; p. pr. & vb. n.
Ringing.] Etym: [AS. hringan; akin to Icel. hringja, Sw. ringa, Dan.
ringe, OD. ringhen, ringkelen. sq. root19.]
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.
RING
Ring, v. i.
1. To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a
metallic one.
Now ringen trompes loud and clarion. Chaucer.
Why ring not out the bells Shak.