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Rim (?), n. [As. rima, reoma, edge; cf. W. rhim, rhimp, a rim, edge, boundary, termination, Armor, rim. Cf. .] 1. The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin.
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2. The lower part of the abdomen. [Obs.] Shak.
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Coloq. Arch rim (Phonetics), the line between the gums and the palate. -- Coloq. Rim-fire cartridge . (Mil.) See under . -- Coloq. Rim lock . See under .
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Rim, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rimmed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Rimming.] To furnish with a rim; to border.
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Rima (?), n.; pl. Rimæ (#). [L.] (Anat.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.
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Rimau dahan (?). [From the native Oriental name.] (Zoöl.) The clouded tiger cat (Felis marmorata) of Southern Asia and the East Indies.
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Rimbase (?), n. (Mil.) A short cylinder connecting a trunnion with the body of a cannon. See Illust. of .
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Rime (?), n. [L. rima.] A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack. Sir T. Browne.
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Rime, n. [AS. hrīm; akin to D. rijm, Icel. hrīm, Dan. rim, Sw. rim; cf. D. rijp, G. reif, OHG. rīfo, hrīfo.] White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor.
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The trees were now covered with rime. De Quincey.
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Rime, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rimed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Riming.] To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.
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Rime, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A step or round of a ladder; a rung.
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Rime, n. Rhyme. See . Coleridge. Landor.
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☞ This spelling, which is etymologically preferable, is coming into use again.
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Rime, v. i. & t. To rhyme. See .
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Rimer (?), n. A rhymer; a versifier.
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Rimer, n. A tool for shaping the rimes of a ladder.
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Rimey (?), v. t. [Cf. OF. rimoier. See .] To compose in rhyme; to versify. [Obs.]
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[Lays] rimeyed in their first Breton tongue. Chaucer.
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Rim-fire (?), a. Having the percussion fulminate in a rim surrounding the base, distinguished from center-fire; -- said of cartridges; also, using rim-fire cartridges; as, a rim-fire gun. Such cartridges are now little used.
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Rimmer (?), n. An implement for cutting, trimming, or ornamenting the rim of anything, as the edges of pies, etc.; also, a reamer. Knight.
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Rimose (?), a. [L. rimosus, fr. rima a chink: cf. F. rimeux.] 1. Full of rimes, fissures, or chinks.
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2. (Nat. Hist.) Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees.
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Rimosely, adv. In a rimose manner.
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Rimosity (?), n. State of being rimose.
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Rimous (?), a. Rimose.
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Rimple (?), n. [AS. hrimpele, or rimpel. See Rumple.] A fold or wrinkle. See .
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Rimple, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Rimpled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Rimpling (?).] To rumple; to wrinkle.
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Rimy (?), a. Abounding with rime; frosty.
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Rincon (?), n.; pl. Rincones (#). [Sp. rincón.] An interior corner; a nook; hence, an angular recess or hollow bend in a mountain, river, cliff, or the like. [Western & Southern U. S.] D. S. Jordan.
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Rind (rīnd), n. [AS. rind bark, crust of bread; akin to OHG. rinta, G. rinde, and probably to E. rand, rim; cf. Skr. ram to end, rest.] The external covering or coat, as of flesh, fruit, trees, etc.; skin; hide; bark; peel; shell.
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Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind
With all thy charms, although this corporal rind
Thou hast immanacled. Milton.
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Sweetest nut hath sourest rind. Shak.
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Rind, v. t. To remove the rind of; to bark. [R.]
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Rinderpest (rĭndẽrpĕst), n. [G., fr. rind, pl. rinder, cattle + pest pest, plague.] A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain.
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Rindle (rĭnd'l), n. [AS. rynele. √11. See .] A small water course or gutter. Ash.
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Rindless (rīndlĕs), a. Destitute of a rind.
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Rindy (rīnd�), a. Having a rind or skin. Ash.
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Rine (rīn), n. See . [Obs.] Spenser.
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Rined (?), a. Having a rind [Obs.] Milton.
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Rinforzando (?), a. [It., fr. rinforzare to reënforce, strengthen.] (Mus.) Increasing; strengthening; -- a direction indicating a sudden increase of force (abbreviated rf., rfz.) Cf. , and .
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Ring (rĭng), v. t. [imp. Rang (răng) or Rung (rŭng); p. p. Rung; p. pr. & vb. n. Ringing.] [AS. hringan; akin to Icel. hringja, Sw. ringa, Dan. ringe, OD. ringhen, ringkelen. √19.] 1. To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.
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2. To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.
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The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums,
Hath rung night's yawning peal. Shak.
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3. To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
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Coloq. To ring a peal , to ring a set of changes on a chime of bells. -- Coloq. To ring the changes upon . See under . -- Coloq. To ring in or Coloq. To ring 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. -- Coloq. 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.
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Ring, v. i. 1. To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one.
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Now ringen trompes loud and clarion. Chaucer.
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Why ring not out the bells? Shak.
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2. To practice making music with bells. Holder.
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3. To sound loud; to resound; to be filled with a ringing or reverberating sound.
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With sweeter notes each rising temple rung. Pope.
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The hall with harp and carol rang. Tennyson.
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My ears still ring with noise. Dryden.
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4. To continue to sound or vibrate; to resound.
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The assertion is still ringing in our ears. Burke.
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5. To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings with his fame.
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Ring, n. 1. A sound; especially, the sound of vibrating metals; as, the ring of a bell.
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2. Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
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The ring of acclamations fresh in his ears. Bacon
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3. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
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As great and tunable a ring of bells as any in the world. Fuller.
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Ring (?), n. [AS. hring, hrinc; akin to Fries. hring, D. & G. ring, OHG. ring, hring, Icel. hringr, DAn. & SW. ring; cf. Russ. krug'. Cf. , a row, .] A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a circular line or hoop.
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2. Specifically, a circular ornament of gold or other precious material worn on the finger, or attached to the ear, the nose, or some other part of the person; as, a wedding ring.
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Upon his thumb he had of gold a ring. Chaucer.
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The dearest ring in Venice will I give you. Shak.
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3. A circular area in which races are or run or other sports are performed; an arena.
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Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring,
Where youthful charioteers contend for glory. E. Smith.
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4. An inclosed space in which pugilists fight; hence, figuratively, prize fighting. “The road was an institution, the ring was an institution.” Thackeray.
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5. A circular group of persons.
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And hears the Muses in a ring
Aye round about Jove's alter sing. Milton.
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6. (Geom.) (a) The plane figure included between the circumferences of two concentric circles. (b) The solid generated by the revolution of a circle, or other figure, about an exterior straight line (as an axis) lying in the same plane as the circle or other figure.
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7. (Astron. & Navigation) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
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8. (Bot.) An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of .
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9. A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute offices, obtain contracts, etc.
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The ruling ring at Constantinople. E. A. Freeman.
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Coloq. Ring armor , armor composed of rings of metal. See Ring mail, below, and Chain mail, under . -- Coloq. Ring blackbird (Zoöl.), the ring ousel. -- Coloq. Ring canal (Zoöl.), the circular water tube which surrounds the esophagus of echinoderms. -- Coloq. Ring dotterel , or Coloq. Ringed dotterel . (Zoöl.) See , and Illust. of . -- Coloq. Ring dropper , a sharper who pretends to have found a ring (dropped by himself), and tries to induce another to buy it as valuable, it being worthless. -- Coloq. Ring fence . See under . -- Coloq. Ring finger , the third finger of the left hand, or the next the little finger, on which the ring is placed in marriage. -- Coloq. Ring formula (Chem.), a graphic formula in the shape of a closed ring, as in the case of benzene, pyridine, etc. See Illust. under . -- Coloq. Ring mail , a kind of mail made of small steel rings sewed upon a garment of leather or of cloth. -- Coloq. Ring micrometer . (Astron.) See Circular micrometer, under . -- Coloq. Saturn's rings . See . -- Coloq. Ring ousel . (Zoöl.) See . -- Coloq. Ring parrot (Zoöl.), any one of several species of Old World parrakeets having a red ring around the neck, especially Palæornis torquatus, common in India, and Palæornis Alexandri of . -- Coloq. Ring plover . (Zoöl.) (a) The ringed dotterel. (b) Any one of several small American plovers having a dark ring around the neck, as the semipalmated plover (Ægialitis semipalmata). -- Coloq. Ring snake (Zoöl.), a small harmless American snake (Diadophis punctatus) having a white ring around the neck. The back is ash-colored, or sage green, the belly of an orange red. -- Coloq. Ring stopper . (Naut.) See under . -- Coloq. Ring thrush (Zoöl.), the ring ousel. -- Coloq. The prize ring , the ring in which prize fighters contend; prize fighters, collectively. -- Coloq. The ring . (a) The body of sporting men who bet on horse races. [Eng.] (b) The prize ring.
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Ring, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ringed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Ringing.] 1. To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle. “Ring these fingers.” Shak.
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2. (Hort.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.
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3. To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout.
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Ring, v. i. (Falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
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Ring armature. (Elec.) An armature for a dynamo or motor having the conductors wound on a ring.
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Ringbill (?), n. (Zoöl.) The ring-necked scaup duck; -- called also ring-billed blackhead. See .
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Ringbird (?), n. (Zoöl.) The reed bunting. It has a collar of white feathers. Called also ring bunting.
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Ringbolt (?), n. An eyebolt having a ring through the eye.
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Ringbone (?), n. (Far.) A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter between or on the small pastern and the great pastern bones. J. H. Walsh.
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Ringdove (?), n. (Zoöl.) A European wild pigeon (Columba palumbus) having a white crescent on each side of the neck, whence the name. Called also wood pigeon, and cushat.
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Ringed (?), a. 1. Encircled or marked with, or as with, a ring or rings.
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2. Wearning a wedding ring; hence, lawfully wedded. “A ringed wife.” Tennyson.
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Coloq. Ringed seal (Zoöl.), a North Pacific seal (Phoca fœtida) having ringlike spots on the body. -- Coloq. Ringed snake (Zoöl.), a harmless European snake (Tropidonotus natrix) common in England. -- Coloq. Ringed worm (Zoöl.), an annelid.
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Ringent (?), a. [L. ringens, -entis, p. pr. of ringi to open wide the mouth: cf. F. ringent.] (Bot.) Having the lips widely separated and gaping like an open mouth; as a ringent bilabiate corolla.
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Ringer (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells.
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2. (Mining) A crowbar. Simmonds.
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Ringer (?), n. (Horse Racing) A horse that is not entitled to take part in a race, but is fraudulently got into it.
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Ringhead (?), n. (Cloth Manuf.) An instrument used for stretching woolen cloth.
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Ringing, a & n. from , v.
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Coloq. Ringing engine , a simple form of pile driver in which the monkey is lifted by men pulling on ropes.
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Ringingly, adv. In a ringing manner.
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Ringleader (?), n. 1. The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals.
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A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance. Barrow.
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2. Opprobriously, a leader of a body of men engaged in the violation of law or in an illegal enterprise, as rioters, mutineers, or the like.
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The ringleaders were apprehended, tried, fined, and imprisoned. Macaulay.
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Ringlestone (?), n. (Zoöl.) The ringed dotterel, or ring plover. [Prov. Eng.]
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Ringlet (?), n. [Ring + -let.] 1. A small ring; a small circle; specifically, a fairy ring.
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You demi-puppets, that
By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make,
Whereof the ewe not bites. Shak.
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2. A curl; especially, a curl of hair.
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[Her golden tresses] in wanton ringlets waved. Milton.
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Ringman (?), n.; pl. Ringmen (�). The ring finger. [Obs.] Ascham
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Ringmaster (?), n. One in charge of the performances (as of horses) within the ring in a circus.
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Ringneck (?), n. 1. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of small plovers of the genus Ægialitis, having a ring around the neck. The ring is black in summer, but becomes brown or gray in winter. The semipalmated plover (Ægialitis semipalmata) and the piping plover (Ægialitis meloda) are common North American species. Called also ring plover, and ring-necked plover.
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2. (Zoöl.) The ring-necked duck.
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Ring-necked (?), a. (Zoöl.) Having a well defined ring of color around the neck.
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Coloq. Ring-necked duck (Zool.), an American scaup duck (Aythya collaris). The head, neck, and breast of the adult male are black, and a narrow, but conspicuous, red ring encircles the neck. This ring is absent in the female. Called also ring-neck, ring-necked blackhead, ringbill, tufted duck, and black jack.
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Ringsail (?), n. (Naut.) See , 2.
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Ringstraked (?), a. Ring-streaked.
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Cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. Gen. xxx. 39.
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Ring-streaked (?), a. Having circular streaks or lines on the body; as, ring-streaked goats.
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Ringtail (?), n. 1. (Zoöl.) A bird having a distinct band of color across the tail, as the hen harrier.
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2. (Naut.) A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail.
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Coloq. Ringtail boom (Naut.), a spar which is rigged on a boom for setting a ringtail.
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Ring-tailed (?), a. (Zoöl.) Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color.
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Coloq. Ring-tailed cat (Zoöl.), the cacomixle. -- Coloq. Ring-tailed eagle (Zoöl.), a young golden eagle.
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Ringtoss (?), n. A game in which the object is to toss a ring so that it will catch upon an upright stick.
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Ring winding. (Elec.) Armature winding in which the wire is wound round the outer and inner surfaces alternately of an annular or cylindrical core.
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Ringworm (?), n. (Med.) A contagious affection of the skin due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, and forming ring-shaped discolored patches covered with vesicles or powdery scales. It occurs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different varieties are distinguished as Tinea circinata, Tinea tonsurans, etc., but all are caused by the same parasite (a species of Trichophyton).
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Rink (?), n. [Scot. renk, rink, rynk, a course, a race; probably fr. AS. hring a ring. See .] 1. The smooth and level extent of ice marked off for the game of curling.
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2. An artificial sheet of ice, generally under cover, used for skating; also, a floor prepared for skating on with roller skates, or a building with such a floor.
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Rinker, n. One who skates at a rink. [Colloq.]
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Rinking, n. Skating in a rink. [Colloq.]
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Rinse (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rinsed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Rinsing.] [OE., fr. OF. rincer, rimser, reinser, raïncier, F. rincer; of uncertain origin.] 1. To wash lightly; to cleanse with a second or repeated application of water after washing.
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2. To cleancse by the introduction of water; -- applied especially to hollow vessels; as, to rinse a bottle. “Like a glass did break i' the rinsing.” Shak.
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Rinse, n. The act of rinsing.
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Rinser (?), n. One who, or that which, rinses.
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