1. Encircled or marked with, or as with, a ring or rings.
2. Wearning a wedding ring; hence, lawfully wedded. "A ringed wife." Tennyson. Ringed seal (Zoöl.), a North Pacific seal (Phoca foetida) having ringlike spots on the body. — Ringed snake (Zoöl.), a harmless European snake (Tropidonotus natrix) common in England. — Ringed worm (Zoöl.), an annelid.
RINGENT Rin"gent, a. Etym: [L. ringens, -entis, p. pr. of ringi to open wide the mouth: cf. F. ringent.] (Bot.)
Defn: Having the lips widely separated and gaping like an open mouth; as a ringent bilabiate corolla.
RINGER
Ring"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells.
2. (Mining)
Defn: A crowbar. Simmonds.
RINGER
Ring"er, n. (Horse Racing)
Defn: A horse that is not entitled to take part in a race, but is fraudulently got into it.