Ringing - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: ringingRing-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....
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...
Wedding-rings
Wedding-rings. As to the assaying and marking of gold wedding-rings, see 18 & 19 Vict. c. 60, s. 1....
Bearing ring
In a balloon the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom functionally analogous to the keel of a ship...
change ringing
ringing tuned bells in a fixed order that is continually changing See change9 n...
Nobilis rings
Colored rings formed upon a metal plate by the electrolytic disposition of copper lead peroxide etc They may be produced by touching with a pointed zinc rod a silver plate on which is a solution of copper sulphate...
Ring
To cause to sound especially by striking as a metallic body as to ring a bell...
Ring armature
An armature for a dynamo or motor having the conductors wound on a ring...
Ringing
a amp n from Ring v...
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