Ring

1. n. A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute offices, obtain contracts, etc.
2. v. t. To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.
3. v. t. To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.
4. v. t. To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
5. v. i. To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one.
6. v. i. To practice making music with bells.
7. v. i. To sound loud; to resound; to be filled with a ringing or reverberating sound.
8. v. i. To continue to sound or vibrate; to resound.
9. v. i. To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings with his fame.
10. n. A sound; especially, the sound of vibrating metals; as, the ring of a bell.
11. 1n. 1 A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute offices, obtain contracts, etc.
12. 1v. t. 1 To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.