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Definition of Ring out
1. Verb. Sound loudly. "A shot rang out"
Definition of Ring out
1. Verb. To sound very loudly. ¹
2. Verb. (telephony) To make a phone call from an internal phone system to a general telephone network number. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ring Out
Literary usage of Ring out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song: Selected from English and American by Charlotte Fiske Bates (1910)
"ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year
is going, let him go; ring out the false, ring in the true. ..."
2. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The Year
is going, let him go ; ring out the false, ring in the true. ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow; The year
is going, let him go: ring out the false, ring in the true. ..."
4. Choice Readings for Public and Private Entertainments: And for the Use of edited by Robert McLean Cumnock (1898)
"ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light; ...
ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"RING out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The
year is dying in the night; ring out, wild bells, and let him die. ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"... he leant against the rail, and took the ring out of its case to look at it.
While doing so, it slipped out of his hand, and fell into the water. ..."
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