enring, v. poet.
(ɛnˈrɪŋ)
Also 7 inring.
[f. en-1 + ring n.]
trans. To put within a ring.
1. To form a ring round; to surround, encircle. lit. and fig. Also, to form into a ring.
| 1589 Warner Alb. Eng. vi. xxxiii. (1612) 162 Inringed by his complices, their chearefull Leader said. 1594 Carew Tasso (1881) 63 For Tancred and Reynold brake through the traine, That thicke of men and armes enringde tofore. 1613–6 W. Browne Brit. Past. i. iii, She rais'd the youth, then with her armes inrings him. Ibid. ii. i, Sweet rest inrings The tyred body of the swarty clowne. 1833 Mrs. Browning Prometh. Bound Poems 1850 I. 188 The deep glooms enringing Tartarus! 1839–48 Bailey Festus xxi. 267 Like the pure pearl-wreath which enrings thy brow. |
2. To put a ring or rings on; to adorn with a ring. In quots. transf.
| 1590 Shakes. Mids. N. iv. i. 49 The female Iuy so Enrings the barky fingers of the Elme. 1825 Blackw. Mag. XVIII. 434, I will leave..the enringing with eternal shackles One's right-hand fingers,—to whoever likes. |