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821 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TOCSIN.1 (Noah Webster)
TOCSIN, n. An alarm bell, or the ringing of a bell for the purpose of alarm.
822 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TOLL.7 (Noah Webster)
TOLL, v.i. To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person.
823 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TOLL.9 (Noah Webster)
… from ringing.
824 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TRIBLET.1 (Noah Webster)
TRIBLET, TRIBOULET, n. A goldsmith’s tool for making rings.
825 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TRINKET.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A small ornament, as a jewel, a ring and the like.
826 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TROCHILUS.5 (Noah Webster)
4. In architecture, a hollow ring round a column; called also scotia, and by workmen, the casement.
827 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TRUNNION-RING.1 (Noah Webster)
TRUNNION-RING, n. A ring on a cannon next before the trunnions.
828 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. UNRING.1 (Noah Webster)
UNRING, v.t. To deprive of a ring or of rings.
829 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VARI.1 (Noah Webster)
… with rings of black and white; a native of Madagascar. The vari of Buffon is the black maucauco, L. macaco of Linne, with the neck bearded, like a ruff.
830 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VARVELS.1 (Noah Webster)
VARVELS, VERVELS, n. Silver rings about the legs of a hawk, on which the owner’s name is engraved.
831 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VERTICIL.2 (Noah Webster)
In botany, a little whirl; a mode of inflorescence, in which the flowers surround the stem in a kind of ring.
832 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VERTICILLATE.1 (Noah Webster)
… in rings, one above another, at each joint. The term is also applied in this sense to leaves and branches. Verticillate plants are such as bear whirled flowers …
833 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VIRTUOUS.7 (Noah Webster)
5. Having great or powerful properties; as virtuous steel; a virtuous staff; a virtuous ring. [Not in use.]
834 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WASHER.3 (Noah Webster)
2. An iron ring between the nave of a wheel and the linch-pin.
835 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WHIRL.12 (Noah Webster)
4. In botany, a species of inflorescence, consisting of many subsessile flowers surrounding the stem in a ring. It is also written whorl and wherl.
836 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WOOD-PIGEON.1 (Noah Webster)
WOOD-PIGEON, n. [wood and pigeon.] The ring-dove, (Columba palumbus.)
837 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. YOKE.2 (Noah Webster)
… a ring or hook in the bow, a chain extends to the thing to be drawn, or to the yoke of another pair of oxen behind.
838 Angel Over Her Tent, p. 67.2 (D. A. Delafield)
… tent, ringed its edge, forming a living wall. Many perched in nearby trees to see and hear better.
839 His Messenger, p. 35.3 (Ruth Wheeler)
For several days she prayed that the responsibility might be taken from her and laid on someone else more capable of bearing it. But the words of the angel, “Make known to others what I have revealed to you,” kept ringing in her ears.
840 His Messenger, p. 47.2 (Ruth Wheeler)
She heard the first bell of the train ring. She put on her hat and walked to the window. When she looked out she saw a man, who was driving his horse very fast, hurry up to the gate and stop. His horse was covered with sweat.