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English

Adjective

Marked with rings, circles or loops.

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Ringed \Ringed\, a.
1. Encircled or marked with, or as with, a ring or rings.
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2. Wearning a wedding ring; hence, lawfully wedded. "A ringed
wife." --Tennyson.
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Ringed seal (Zool.), a North Pacific seal (Phoca foetida)
having ringlike spots on the body.

Ringed snake (Zool.), a harmless European snake
(Tropidonotus natrix) common in England.

Ringed worm (Zool.), an annelid.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Ring \Ring\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ringed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Ringing.]
1. To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle.
"Ring these fingers." --Shak.
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2. (Hort.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to
girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.
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3. To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a
swine's snout.
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WordNet ringed
adj 1: shaped like a ring [syn: annular, annulate, annulated,
circinate, circular, ring-shaped, doughnut-shaped]
2: wearing a wedding ring; lawfully married; "a ringed wife"-
Tennyson
3: adorned or crowned with a circlet; sometimes used as
combining forms; "a brow encircled with laurel"; "wreathed
in an extraordinary luminescence"; "ringed round with
daisies"; "smoke-wreathed" [syn: encircled, wreathed]

Moby Dictionary
begirt , belted , cinctured , circled , circumscribed , circumscript ,
defined , definite , delimited , demarcated , determinate , determined ,
encinctured , encircled , fixed , girdled , girt , hedged about , set ,
specific , stated , surrounded , zoned