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enring, v. poet.|ɛnˈrɪŋ| Also 7 inring. [f. en-1 + ring n.] trans. To put within a ring. 1. To form a ring round; to surround, encircle. lit. and fig. Also, to form into a ring.
1589Warner Alb. Eng. vi. xxxiii. (1612) 162 Inringed by his complices, their chearefull Leader said. 1594Carew Tasso (1881) 63 For Tancred and Reynold brake through the traine, That thicke of men and armes enringde tofore. 1613–6W. Browne Brit. Past. i. iii, She rais'd the youth, then with her armes inrings him. Ibid. ii. i, Sweet rest inrings The tyred body of the swarty clowne. 1833Mrs. Browning Prometh. Bound Poems 1850 I. 188 The deep glooms enringing Tartarus! 1839–48Bailey Festus xxi. 267 Like the pure pearl-wreath which enrings thy brow. 2. To put a ring or rings on; to adorn with a ring. In quots. transf.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. iv. i. 49 The female Iuy so Enrings the barky fingers of the Elme. 1825Blackw. Mag. XVIII. 434, I will leave..the enringing with eternal shackles One's right-hand fingers,—to whoever likes. |