Ring Necked - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: ring neckedRing necked
Having a well defined ring of color around the neck...
Ringneck
Any one of several species of small plovers of the genus AEliggialitis having a ring around the neck The ring is black in summer but becomes brown or gray in winter The semipalmated plover AEliggialitis semipalmata and the piping plover AEliggialitis meloda are common North American species Called also ring plover and ring necked plover...
Ringbill
The ring necked scaup duck called also ring billed blackhead See Scaup...
Ring-dropping
Ring-dropping, a trick variously practised. One mode is as follows, the circumstances being taken from Patch's case, 2 East, P.C. 678:-The prisoner, with accomplices, being with their victim, pretends to find a ring wrapt in paper, appearing to be a jeweller's receipt for a 'rich brilliant diamond ring.' They offer to leave the ring with the victim if he will deposit some money and his watch as a security. He lays his watch and money, is beckoned out of the room by one of the confederates, while the others take away his watch, etc. This is a larceny. See further 2 Russ. On Cr....
Ewe necked
Having a neck like a ewe said of horses in which the arch of the neck is deficient being somewhat hollowed out...
Necked
Having such a neck chiefly used in composition as stiff necked...
Devil on the neck
Devil on the neck, an instrument of torture, formerly used to extort confessions, etc. It was made of several irons, which were fastened to the neck and legs and wrenched together so as to break the back...
Neck verse
Neck verse, means a verse, which was used as a literary test for an accused who claimed benefit of clergy. An accused who read the passage satisfactorily would not receive the maximum sentence (the person's neck would be saved), Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1053....
Piston ring
A spring packing ring or any of several such rings for a piston...
Ringed
Encircled or marked with or as with a ring or rings...
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