Ring v. t. [imp. Rang or Rung p. p. Rung; p. pr. & vb. n. Ringing.]
 1. To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.
 2. To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.
 The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums,
 Hath rung night's yawning peal.   --Shak.
 3. To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
 To ring a peal, to ring a set of changes on a chime of bells.
 To ring the changes upon. See under Change.
 To ring in or To ring out, to usher, attend on, or celebrate, by the ringing of bells; as, to ring out the old year and ring in the new. --Tennyson.
 To ring the bells backward, to sound the chimes, reversing the common order; -- formerly done as a signal of alarm or danger. --Sir W. Scott.