Ringed
[rɪŋd]
Definition
(adj.) wearing a wedding ring; lawfully married; 'a ringed wife'- Tennyson .
(adj.) having colored rings around the body .
Typist: Vern--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Ring
(a.) Encircled or marked with, or as with, a ring or rings.
(a.) Wearning a wedding ring; hence, lawfully wedded.
Edited by Lenore
Examples
- The caged eagle, whose gold-ringed eyes cruelty has extinguished, might look as looked that sightless Samson. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The curtain shook next moment, and a lady, raising it with a heavily ringed hand, dropped it behind her again as she entered. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It was a strange sensation, his heart beating, and ringed round with the utterly unknown darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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