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Wright's OE grammar
§96; §317; §325; §335;
Dele 'hrincg ansa . . . Lye' in ll. 4, 5, and add:
a ring as ornament encircling a finger, an arm, a neck
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  • Bewrít ðá wyrte mid ánum gyldenan hringe,

      Lch. i. 112, 22.

  • Dyde him of healse hring gyldenne,

      B. 2809.

  • Ne gé ne sceolon beón rance mid hringgum geglengede,

      Ll. Th. ii. 358, 5.

  • Gimbǽrum ringum

    gemmiferis (digitorum) anulis (comi ),

      An. Ox. 1192.

  • Hringas

    an[nul]os, Wrt. Voc. ii. 6, 61. I a. a betrothal ring (lit. or fig.) :-- Ic hæbbe óðerne lufiend (Christ )

    . . . hé his geleáfan hring mé lét tó wedde (cf. he haueð iweddet him to mi meiðhad mil te ring of rihte bileaue,
      Kath. 1508), Hml. S. 7, 30.
a ring of a coat of mail. v. Hring-Dene
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  • Hringum

    hamis, circulis loricę,

      An. Ox. 50, 50.
a ring employed as a means of attachment, suspension, compression, &c. Cf. hringe
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  • Mé habbað hringa gespong, slíðhearda sál, síðes ámyrred . . . fét synt gebundene, handa gehæfte,

      Gen. 377.

  • Ic sceal þegne mínum hringum hæfted hýran georne,

      Rä. 5, 2: 87, 4.

  • Wyrc feówer hringas (

    circulos

    ), and áhóh hié on ðá feówer hyrnan ðǽre earce; and hát wyrcean twégen stengas . . . and sting út ðurh ðá hringas,
      Past. 169, 20-24.

  • IV. the border of a circular object, of land as bounded by the horizon :-- Siððan þú gestígest steápe dúne, hrincg ðæs heán landes, Gen. 2854. IV a. fig.

    the limit of a jurisdiction

    :-- Þonne þæt gecnáweð feónd, þætte gehwylc hæleða cynnes on his hringe bið fæste geféged,
      Wal. 40.
an object having a circular form. Cf. hring-mere, -pytt, stede, -will
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  • Hri[ng]

    circulus (teres lunaris globi ),

      An. Ox. 8, 47.

  • Se hring (

    a chalice or paten), Rä. 49, 8: 60, 1. V a. a circular fold, coil. Cf. hring-boga, -burne :-- In hringe in spira (chelydri ),

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 96, 14: 47, 40.

  • Hringum

    spiris (anguis), 86, 25: An. Ox. 4944. V b. a wreath :-- Hringas serta (purpureis floribus contexta ),

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 84, 19.
a circular mark
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  • Þæs sinewealtan hringes

    teretes cycli (cycli

    has been taken as gen. sing., it is nom. pl. and describes the marks on a peacock's feathers, v. Ald.
      142, 23), Wrt. Voc. ii. 89, 60.

  • Hí ymb hine gemearcodon ánne hring (

    circulum) on þǽre eorðan and héton ꝥ hé mid his fét þone hring ne oferstópe, Gr. D. 196, 27-197, 1: Lch. ii. 112, 1. VI a. a circular band of light or colour :-- Is ymb þone sweóran swylce sunnan hring beága beorhtast (cf. his (the Phenix's) sweóra is swylce smǽte gold, E. S. viii. 478, 57; and Ors. 5, 14; S. 248, 9 (in Dict. )

    . In this latter passage, however, the original seems to intend a halo with prismatic colouring),
      Ph. 305.
a group of persons standing in a circle
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  • Wuldorful apostolan hring

    gloriosus apostolorum chorus,

      Angl. ii. 357, 10.

  • Fugla cynn þone hálgan hringe beteldað,

      Ph. 339.
an enclosed circular space, sea or
land enclosed by the horizon
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  • Wíde rád wolcnum under ofer holmes hrincg hof séleste,

      Gen. 1393.
a circular course or
orbit
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  • Hringa hóhwerfinge

    orbes orbibus,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 75, 6: 64, 21.

  • Hringum

    orbibus,

      63, 10.
in reference to the revolution of time and its computation
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  • Ǽr sunne twelf mónða hringe útan ymbgán hæbbe

    priusquam sol bis senis voluminibus annilem circumvolverit orbem,

      Guth. Gr. 172, 28.
Etymology
[Bd. 4, 18; Sch. 437, 11: 5, 21; Sch. 680, 6 in Dict.]
Similar entries
v. gedwol-hring (v. Bd. 5, 21; Sch. 680, 8), hóf-hring, mídl-hring, wíngeard-hring.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hring.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/53232.

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