[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ring \ring\ ri^ng, v. t. imp. rang ra^ng or rung
   ru^ng; p. p. rung; p. pr.  vb. n. ringing. as.
   hringan; akin to icel. hringja, sw. ringa, dan. ringe, od.
   ringhen, ringkelen. root19.
   1. to cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic
      body; as, to ring a bell.
      1913 webster

   2. to make a sound, as by ringing a bell; to sound.
      1913 webster

            the shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums,
            hath rung night's yawning peal.       --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. to repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
      1913 webster

   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 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.

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
rang rung ringing to ring a peal to ring the changes upon change 
to ring in to ring out to ring the bells backward 

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