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The ring finger. [Obs.] Ascham

One in charge of the performances (as of horses) within the ring in a circus.

Any one of several species of small plovers of the genus Ægialitis, having a ring around the neck. The ring is black in summer, but becomes brown or gray in winter. The semipalmated plover (Æ. semipalmata) and the piping plover (Æ. meloda) are common North American species. Called also ring plover, and ring-necked plov…

See Ringtail,2.

Ring-streaked. Cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. Gen. xxx. 39.

A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail. Ringtail boom (Naut.), a spar which is rigged on a boom for setting a ringtail.

A game in which the object is to toss a ring so that it will catch upon an upright stick.

contagious affection of the skin due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, and forming ring-shaped discolored patches covered with vesicles or powdery scales. It occurs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different varieties are distinguished as Tinea circinata, Tinea tonsurans, etc., but all are caused by t…

Behavior. [Obs.] Sir. T. More.

Detestation. Milton.

To unbind. [Obs.] Bailey.

Expressing admiration; as, an admiring glance. -- Ad*mir"ing*ly, adv. Shak.

With adoration.

See Astringent.

The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. [Obs.] Grose.

An exposure to air, or to a fire, for warming, drying, etc.; as, the airing of linen, or of a room.

That allures; attracting; charming; tempting. -- Al*lur"ing*ly, adv. -- Al*lur"ing*ness, n.

Apparently. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The string of an apron. To be tied to a wife's or mother's apron strings, to be unduly controlled by a wife or mother. He was so made that he could not submit to be tied to the apron strings even of the best of wives. Macaulay.

The act of bedding ashlar in mortar.