Ringed

4 definitions found

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

  Ringed \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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     {Ringed seal} (Zool.), a North Pacific seal ({Phoca foetida})
        having ringlike spots on the body.
  
     {Ringed snake} (Zool.), a harmless European snake
        ({Tropidonotus natrix}) common in England.
  
     {Ringed worm} (Zool.), an annelid.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ringed
       adj 1: 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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "ringed":
     begirt, belted, cinctured, circled, circumscribed, circumscript,
     defined, definite, delimited, demarcated, determinate, determined,
     encinctured, encircled, fixed, girdled, girt, hedged about, set,
     specific, stated, surrounded, zoned