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fully wedded. "A ringed wife." Tennyson. Ringed seal (Zoöl.), a North Pacific seal (Phoca foetida) having ringlike spots on the body. -- Ringed snake (Zoöl.), a harmless European snake (Tropidonotus natrix) common in England. -- Ringed worm (Zoöl.), an annelid.

To throw into disorder or confusion. Where best He might the ruffled foe infest. Hudibras.

sentially; to overthrow. this mortal house I'll ruin. Shak. By thee raised, I ruin all my foes. Milton. The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. Franklin. By the fireside there are old men seated, Seeling ruined cities in the ashes. Longfellow.

jury; unharmed; unhurt; secure; whole; as, safe from disease; safe from storms; safe from foes. "And ye dwelled safe." 1 Sam. xii. 11. They escaped all safe all safe to land. Acts xxvii. 44. Established in a safe, unenvied throne. Milton.

ack besiegers; to make a sally. They break the truce, and sally out by night. Dryden. The foe retires, -- she heads the sallying host. Byron.

ion of an enemy. Scouts each coast light-armèd scour, Each quarter, to descry the distant foe. Milton.

l interests; not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly. New foes arise, Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains. Milton.

In a secure manner; without fear or apprehension; without danger; safely. His daring foe . . . securely him defied. Milton.

The bear's-foot (Helleborus foetidus); -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots. Dr. Prior.

Shapely. [R.] "Round and shapable." De Foe.

he shocks Of tides and seas tempestuous. Blackmore. He stood the shock of a whole host of foes. Addison.

a person or party regarded as opposed to another person or party, whether as a rival or a foe; a body of advocates or partisans; a party; hence, the interest or cause which one maintains against another; a doctrine or view opposed to another. God on our side, doubt not of victory. Shak. We have not always been of the .…

Since; afterwards. See 1st Sith. [Obs.] Fortune was first friend and sithen foe. Chaucer.

To spill liquid upon; to smear carelessly; to spill, as liquid foed or drink, in careless eating or drinking. The milk pan and cream pot so slabbered and tost That butter is wanting and cheese is half lost. Tusser.

tongue. Fixed on defense, the Trojans are not slow To guard their shore from an expected foe. Dryden.

red anything out of the ship's stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share. De Foe.

to; to ruin; to undo. "Sped with spavins." Shak. A dire dilemma! either way I 'm sped. If foes, they write, if friends, they read, me dead. Pope.

A stable keeper. De Foe.

yielding or receding; to withstand. "Love stood the siege." Dryden. He stood the furious foe. Pope.

cious manner on insufficient grounds. Fortune, as she 's wont, turned fickle, And for the foe began to stickle. Hudibras. While for paltry punk they roar and stickle. Dryden. The obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong. Hazlitt.