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ringlet|ˈrɪŋlɪt|
[f. ring n.1 + -let.]
1. A small ring made of metal or other material.
1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions ii. xi. 250 A Bullockes hide..so set rounde aboute on the bordre, or verge, with ringlettes of iron. 1725Pope Odyss. vii. 117 The ringlets that command the door. 1726Ibid. xxi. 76 Who first Ulysses' wondrous bow shall bend, And through twelve ringlets the fleet arrow send. 1795Burke Regic. Peace iv. Sel. Wks. 313 This deficiency is made up by strengthening the first ringlet of the chain. 1813T. Busby Lucretius II. vi. 1255 Some things, as if by hooks and ringlets fixed, In junction hold. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 310 I have sometimes seen them made of very fine polished ivory,..with a ringlet at the base.
2. A circular dance or course: a circle of dancers; a fairy-ring.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. ii. i. 86 To dance our ringlets to the whistling Winde. 1627Drayton Quest Cynthia 219 When Fayries in their Ringlets there Do daunce their nightly rounds. 1691Dryden K. Arthur iv. i, The ringlets round her trunk declare her guilty Of many midnight-sabbaths revelled here. 1762Beattie Pigm. & Cranes 212 They foot it featly, ranged in ringlets gay. 1793Coleridge Songs of Pixies vi, Or through the mystic ringlets of the vale We flash our faery feet in gamesome prank. 1821Sporting Mag. IX. 8 The numerous ringlets or circles on the downs, and on some pasture land.
b. An annular appearance, marking, formation, part, or piece.
1755B. Martin Mag. Arts & Sci. 153 Now a small Ringlet appears; and this is more properly called a Central than a Total Eclipse of the Sun. 1796Morse Amer. Geogr. I. 220 Of a pale grey, sky-coloured ground, with brown undulatory ringlets. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. xix. §4 The ringlets of which the proboscis of the bee is composed. 1838T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 1005 He stripped the bark off a tree in ringlets. 1845Browning Meeting at Night i, The startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep.
3. A curled lock or tress of hair.
1667Milton P.L. iv. 306 Shee..Her unadorned golden tresses wore Dissheveld, but in wanton ringlets wav'd. 1702Pope Sappho 83 No more my locks in ringlets curl'd diffuse The costly sweetness of Arabian dews. 1784Cowper Task iv. 81 Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald. 1837Lytton E. Maltravers i. viii, Maltravers smiled, and stroked those beautiful ringlets. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets xii. 408 His rich hair ripples in ringlets between cheek and shoulder.
fig.1633Milton Arcades 47 To nurse the Saplings tall, and curl the grove With Ringlets quaint. 1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr. viii. xii, Break, Amphion, break your slumbers, Nature's ringlets deck the thorn.
attrib. and Comb.1791–2Wordsw. Descriptive Sketches 132 Lip-dewing song, and ringlet-tossing dance. 1855M. Arnold New Sirens xxii, Come, bind up those ringlet showers! 1868Tennyson Lucretius 258 A truth That..numbs the Fury's ringlet-snake.
4. Ent. The name given to one of the satyrid butterflies, Hipparchia hyperanthus. Also attrib.
Other species of Hipparchia are named marsh ringlet, mountain ringlet, Scotch ringlet, small ringlet, etc.
1812Haworth in Trans. Entom. Soc. I. 332 Hero. Papilio (silver-bordered Ringlet). Mnemon...(the small Ringlet). 1819G. Samouelle Entomol. Compend. 396 Hipparchia Hyperanthus, the Ringlet. 1879Lubbock Sci. Lect. ii. 49 Hipparchia hyperanthus (the ringlet butterfly) also has whitish caterpillars. |