ringed, ppl. a.
(rɪŋd)
[f. ring n.1 and v.1]
1. Of armour: Made of rings. rare.
| Beowulf 1246 Heaþo-steapa helm, hringed byrne. |
| 1824 Meyrick Ant. Armour I. 27 The form of the rustred armour seems..to have grown out of the ringed. 1846 Fairholt Costume 155 A hauberk or tunic of ringed mail, reaching to the knee. Ibid. 157 This surcoat hanging lower than the ringed hauberk. 1876 J. R. Planché Cycl. Costume I. 348 Ringed mail is constantly mentioned by Saxon, Norman and Scandinavian writers. |
2. a. Of persons: Wearing a ring or rings; also, wedded with a ring.
| 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. iii. 12 On alle hure fyue fyngres [she was] rycheliche yrynged. |
| 1827 Lytton Pelham xxvi, I shall at all events appear in the Tuileries to-morrow, chained and ringed. 1866 Geo. Eliot F. Holt (1868) 58 Your ringed and scented men of the people. 1872 J. C. Jeaffreson Brides & Bridals I. vi. 93 Our mediæval matrons were always ringed on the left hand. 1875 Tennyson Q. Mary i. i, I was born of a true man and a ring'd wife. |
b. Of the fingers, etc.: Provided or adorned with a ring or rings.
| 1599 Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 251 Their wiues eares and noses are ringed very full of rings of copper and siluer. 1681 Rycaut tr. Gracian's Critick 228 The Fingers, which were ringed with Diamonds. 1856 Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh iii. 975 With..forefinger, brown and ringed. 1881 Mrs. C. Praed Policy & P. I. 202 She took Mr. Longleat's rough hand with her soft ringed fingers. |
c. Of a bird: bearing a ring or rings on one or both legs.
| 1908 Brit. Birds I. 298 Should anyone come across any of Herr Mortensen's ringed birds at any time, it is hoped they will send the ring, foot, and data of capture either to him or to me. 1948 Ibid. XLI 233 Recoveries of ringed Mallard are in the vast majority of cases obtained from birds shot. 1978 P. Conder RSPB Guide to Birdwatching 104 The table of longevity shows that ringed birds are able to survive to a good age. |
3. a. Marked or encircled by a ring or rings; surrounded by a circular band or bands, etc.
| 1513 Douglas æneis v. x. 40 Apon a hors of Trace..With bawsand face, ringit the forthir E. |
| 1839 Darwin Voy. Nat. xi. (1879) 232 One man was ringed and dotted with white like a Fuegian. 1858 Greener Gunnery 364 As it now appears in Captain Minié's annular ringed bullet. 1870 R. A. Proctor Other Worlds vi. 148 note, The sensations with which..I saw the ringed planet for the first time. 1885 Century Mag. XXXI. 31 He cautiously felt the weight of the ringed and polished rod. |
b. Bot. (See
quots.)
| 1832 Lindley Introd. Botany 394 Ringed.., surrounded by elevated or depressed bands; as the roots of some plants, the cupulæ of several oaks, &c. 1856 Henslow Dict. Bot. Terms 159 Ringed, when a cylindrical part is surrounded by lines, bands, elevations, &c., which approximate to circles. |
c. Deprived of a ring of bark.
| 1820 Hort. Soc. Trans. IV. 124 If the ring be wide, the ringed branches..speedily become sickly. |
4. a. Having, or put into, the form of a ring.
| 1593 Nashe Christ's T. Wks. (Grosart) IV. 255 Hence blasphemous Witches.., when they raise vp the deuill, drawe a ringed circle all-about hym. 1893 G. Allen Scallywag I. 105 The baronet blew the smoke slowly through his ringed lips. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 513 Discoid or ringed scaly patches. |
b. Zool. Composed of rings; annulated.
| 1840 Swainson Nat. Hist. Insects 1 The body is always divided into rings or transverse joints; from which circumstance naturalists have agreed to call them annulose, or ringed animals. 1873 Dawson Earth & Man iii. 45 A lower type of annulose or ringed animal than that of the Trilobites, is that of the worms. |
5. In the specific names of animals, birds, etc.:
ringed barnacle, the brent-goose and some related species.
ringed boa, the aboma (
Epicrates cenchris).
ringed carpet, a pale grey moth,
Cleora cinctaria, with dark patches on the forewings.
ringed china-mark, a species of moth (see
quots.).
ringed dove,
= ring-dove.
ringed ground-squirrel,
guillemot,
kingfisher,
lemming (see
quots.).
ringed penguin, the chinstrap penguin,
Pygoscelis antarctica.
ringed perch, the yellow perch of America.
ringed (sand-)plover, one of the common varieties of plover (
ægialitis hiaticola).
ringed rat,
seal (see
quots.).
ringed snake,
= ring-snake (see
ring n.1 19 b).
ringed thrush,
= ring-ouzel.
| 1831 Wilson's Amer. Ornith. IV. 348 *Ringed Bernacles, Berniclæ torquatæ. |
| 1802 Shaw Gen. Zool. III. ii. 344 *Ringed boa (Boa Cenchris)... This animal is a native of South America. 1828 Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. I. 356 The Ringed Boa. Body fawn-coloured, with a chain of large brown rings along the back. |
| 1866 *Ringed carpet [see carpet n. 4]. 1896 J. W. Tutt Brit. Moths xi. 300 The Ringed Carpet..is abundant at Lyndhurst in May and early June, on the dwarf firs among the heather. 1948 W. J. Stokoe Caterpillars Brit. Moths II. 197 The Ringed Carpet... The New Forest in Hampshire is said to be the district par excellence for this species. |
| 1819 G. Samouelle Entomol. Compend. 425 Botys stratiotalis, the *ringed China-mark. 1832 J. Rennie Consp. Butterfl. & M. 151 The Ringed China-Mark (Hydrocampa Stratiotata). |
| c 1532 G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 911 The *rynged dove, le ramier. 1821 Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 178 Here thrushes chant their madrigals, Here breathes the ringed dove. |
| 1879 Goode Anim. Res. & Fisheries U.S. in Smithson. Collect. XXIII. 16 Spermophilus annulatus,..*Ringed Ground Squirrel.—Plains of Colima, Mexico. |
| 1843 Yarrell Brit. Birds III. 351 The *Ringed Guillemot (Uria lacrymans) or The Bridled Guillemot. |
| 1889 Sclater & Hudson Argentine Ornith. II. 26 Ceryle Torquata (Linn.), *Ringed Kingfisher. |
| 1829 Swainson & Richardson Fauna Boreali-Americana i. 136 The Greenland Lemming is most allied to the *Ringed Lemming of Siberia..; the brown ring round the neck, surmounted by a paler one, whence it derives the specific appellation of torquatus, does not exist in the American animal. |
| 1919 *Ringed penguin [see Adélie]. 1964 A. L. Thomson New Dict. Birds 611/1 The Chinstrap (or Ringed) Penguin..is most abundant in the Antarctic Peninsula. |
| 1884 Goode Fisheries U.S. in Senate Misc. VI. 414 The descriptive names ‘Yellow Perch’ and ‘*Ringed Perch’ are in common use. 1893 Bean Fishes Pennsylv. 127 (Cassell), The yellow perch, ringed perch, or striped perch..does not occur in the Ohio valley or south⁓west. |
| 1784 Pennant Arct. Zool. (1792) II. 191 *Ringed Plover... The neck is encircled with a white ring. 1831 Rennie Montagu's Ornith. Dict. 142 The Ringed Plover is entirely a shore bird, residing there the whole year. 1882 Newton in Encycl. Brit. XIV. 76/1 The group commonly known as Ringed Plovers or Ring Doterels. |
| 1781 Pennant Hist. Quadrup. II. 457 *Ringed Rat, Mus Torquatus. |
| 1842 Macgillivray Brit. Ornith. II. 52 *Ringed Sand⁓plover. |
| 1871 Proc. Zool. Soc. June 506 Occurrence of the *Ringed or Marbled Seal (Phoca hispida) on the Coast of Norfolk. 1879 Nature XXI. 40/1 The Polar bear and the ringed seal (Phoca fœtida). |
| 1769 Pennant Brit. Zool. (1776) III. 31 *Ringed Snake. 1802 Bingley Anim. Biography (1813) II. 458 The Common or Ringed Snakes, are well⁓known inhabitants of moist and warm woods in this country. 1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. III. 620/2 The fourth ventricle..in the ringed snake and lizard is small, but deep. 1875 Cope N. Amer. Batrachia & Reptilia in Smithson. Collect. XIII. 65 The only reptiles are the snapping-tortoise and the ringed snake. |
| 1839 Macgillivray Brit. Birds II. 100 The *Ringed Thrush is very similar to the Blackbird. |