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Ringed

Ringed \Ringed\, a.

  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 (Zo["o]l.), a North Pacific seal ( Phoca f[oe]tida) having ringlike spots on the body.

    Ringed snake (Zo["o]l.), a harmless European snake ( Tropidonotus natrix) common in England.

    Ringed worm (Zo["o]l.), an annelid.

Ringed

Ring \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.

  2. (Hort.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.

  3. To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout.

Wiktionary
ringed
  1. 1 Marked with rings, circles or loops. 2 Wearing a wedding ring; hence, lawfully wedded. v

  2. (en-past of: ring) ''(Etymology 1 only; the circle sense)''

WordNet
ringed
  1. adj. shaped like a ring [syn: annular, annulate, annulated, circinate, circular, ring-shaped, doughnut-shaped]

  2. wearing a wedding ring; lawfully married; "a ringed wife"- Tennyson

  3. adorned or crowned with a circlet; sometimes used as combining forms; "a brow encircled with laurel"; "wreathed in an extraordinary luminescence"; "ringed round with daisies"; "smoke-wreathed" [syn: encircled, wreathed]

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Usage examples of "ringed".

All of half a mile in diameter was this shaft, and ringed regularly along its height by wide amethystine bands -- like rings of a hollow piston.

The tangled branches of wild apricot trees ringed the pool, perfuming the air with the scent of ripe fruit.

Where they came out of the trees, Autun rose before them, its main ramparts clambering along a defensible hill and more recent settlements sprawled below the old walls along the river, each ringed by a palisade.

They were shrunken lakes, ringed with deep shores: O-Zone was famous for having become dry, and this was one of its driest months.

From here the village looked like someone had dropped a box of toy blocks, white and pink and mostly brown around the edges, ringed in a wide straggle of fences, corrals, sheds, and barns, the stream bright on one side, demon shrines making spots of red or blue in the corners of the fields, and the church a fantasia of color and gilt.

A massive, freshwater, inland sea ringed by mountains and scrubland and swamps and the few hardy, remote civilizations that Fennec claimed to know.

The city would have been ringed in any event, whether Gurd had been wangled out the jug or not.

No shadow could come near him through the brightness of those fires of thanksgiving that burned on every hill and beach, through the circles of laughing dancers that ringed him about, singing his praise, swinging their torches in the gusty autumn night so that sparks rose thick and bright and brief upon the wind.

Dim hotchi paths led him to a basin ringed by roots and stone-packed soil.

Purple dust and niveous spiral galaxy, a plain of hyaline rock broken by pyrgoidal clusters ringed in fire, temperatures sliding a groove betwixt boiling and freezing.

So Kreplach turned back, after watching Ajaxia happily sail off in the general direction of the Ringed Planet.

Shadows lengthened across the valley, at first almost purple, then gray, soon black ringed with mist.

But they ringed the form of Gail Halliday and snarled their menace at him until the clucking of the noseless servant made them draw off.

The watery backdrop was ringed with distant saw grass and sabal palms.

The wolves ringed them, leaping at the skellers that tried to break the circle.