(a) To ring (a bell), toll, sound; ring (a peal); ~ oute; ~ to prime, ring (a peal) at prime; (b) to announce (certain times, events) by bell-ringing; ~ curfeu (mid-dai, mid-night); ~ houres (laudes, matines, non, prime, tide, itides, undern); ~ holi, ?ring for a holy day; ~ knil (soule-knil); ~ sacring; (c) in fig. senses: ~ belle, to speak (in a certain way), sound a note (of envy, contention, flattery, slander); also, disclose secrets, blab; ~ hire (mi) belle, rebuke her (me), censure; ~ youre belle, ?admonish you, warn you.

(a) To ring a bell, ring a peal of bells; ring (at a door, gate); -- also impers.; ~ ayen, greet (sb.) with bell-ringing; ~ in, ring a final peal before a service [quot.: 1483]; ~ al in, ?ring a final peal before a service; ?summon everyone to church by a final peal; (b) ~ to, to announce (mass, a service, etc.) by bell-ringing; -- also impers.; hit rong with evensong belle, the vesper bell rang; (c) to make (sth.) ring, resound, or re-echo; -- also without obj.; strike (sb.) like a bell; ring at (a gate).

(a) Of a bell: to ring, sound; (b) of a musical instrument, a voice, a sound: to sound well, sound loudly, resound; ppl. ringinge, resounding, sounding well; (c) of a place, a room, an ear: to reverberate with sound, re-echo; (d) to produce a ringing noise; also, jingle; also, generate a sound by percussion; of a sound: reverberate, echo; ppl. ringinge as adj.: clanging, ringing; (e) of a canonical hour: to be announced by the ringing of a bell.

(a) To make (sth.) known, make public, proclaim; ~ oute, speak out (a sermon, speech) clearly and forcibly; (b) to speak loudly or shrilly; ~ of, complain about (sth.); (c) ~ in-to, to translate (sth.) into (another language).

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