wring
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive)Examples: "I didn’t have a towel so I just wrung my hair dry."; "[…] Protagenes portrai[e]d Venus vvith a ſponge ſprinkled with ſvvéete vvater, but if once ſhe vvrong it, it vvould droppe blood: […]"; "O my belly ſeeths like a Porridge-pot, ſome cold water I ſhall boyle ouer elſe; my whole body is in a ſweat, that you may wring my ſhirt; feele here— […]"Synonyms: wring out, astringe, compact, compactify, condense, densitize, pack, presstransitive
2. (transitive)Examples: "“I feel I’ve been wrung through a wringer,” Maggie said."Synonyms: wring out, astringe, compact, compactify, condense, densitize, pack, presstransitive
3. (transitive)Examples: "Put the berries into a cheesecloth and wring the juice into a bowl."; "And whan he roſe vp early on the morow, he wrãge [wrange] yͤ dew out of the fleſe, and fylled a dyſſhe full of water."; "At the end of this very long walk stands a woman in white marble, in posture of a laundress wringing water out of a piece of linen, very naturally formed, into a vast lavor the work and invention of M[ichel] Angelo Buonarotti."alsofigurativelytransitive
4. (transitive)Examples: "to wring someone’s hand (that is, shake hands vigorously with someone)"; "to wring the neck of a chicken"; "And some I vysyte with brennynge of fyre; / Of some I wrynge of the necke lyke a wyre; […]"Synonyms: strangle, throttlealsofigurativelytransitive
5. (transitive)Examples: "to wring one’s hands with worry"; "Come you whoſe loues are dead, / And whiles I ſing / Weepe and wring / Euery hand and euery head, […]"; "Ah! wherefore doſt thou wring thy tender Hands / In woeful Attitude?"Synonyms: strangle, throttlealsofigurativelytransitive
6. (transitive)Examples: "to wring a mast"; "[B]y the couetous prieſtes of Baall through defaulte of good & godly Counſayllours, whome (doubte ye not but this wicked rable founde meanes to wring out of fauour, & to remoue awaye from the Kynges preſence) he was ſo coumpaced, weyghed, perſuaded, woonne, bewitched, peruerted & ſo farre ſeduced: yͭ (as the ſcripture recordeth), he did eiuil in the ſyght of the Lorde euen after the abominacyons of the heathen."; "Why, he wrong a club / Once in a fray out of the hande of Belzebub."transitive
noun (English)
1. (also figuratively) A powerful squeezing or twisting action.Examples: "I grasped his hand and gave it a grateful wring."; "The VVring by the hand, and the Banquet is ours."; "And hauing clipt them vvith pretence of loue, / Haue I not cruſht them vvith a cruell vvring?"alsofiguratively
2. (dated) Followed by down: the product of wringing, such as cider or wine.Examples: "She had just got off her mare to look at the last wring-down of cider for the year; […]"dated
3. (obsolete) A sharp physical pain, especially in the abdomen; also, mental pain or distress.Examples: "Hens dung ſvvallovved [by a horse] by hap, bringeth frets and vvrings in the bellie: […]"; "[T]here vvas brought unto him an horſe named Babylonius, vvhich happening to be ſore vexed vvith a ſuddaine gripe or vvring in his belly, fell dovvne, and vvhiles hee vvas not able to endure the paine, vvallovveth along, and happeneth to beſprent his capariſon and ornaments richly garniſhed vvith gold and precious ſtones. At vvhich ſtrange ſight he tooke great joy, and cryed out, vvith the applauſe of thoſe next about him, That Babylon vvas fallen, and lay along on the ground diſpoyled of all her ornaments."; "When we have good dayes we slight them, when they are gone, we sinke under the wring of sorrow, for their losse; and want teacheth vs the worth of things more truely: and it is a true saying, Blessings appeare not, till they bee vanished."obsolete
noun (English)
1. (archaic) A device for compressing or pressing, especially for making cheese, cider from apples, or wine from grapes.Examples: "If you boil Cider eſpecial care muſt be had to put it into the furnace immediately from the vvring; othervviſe, if it be let ſtand in Vats, or veſſels, tvvo or three days after the preſſure, the beſt and moſt ſpiritous part vvill aſcend and fly avvay in the vapours vvhen fire is put under it; […] A Friend of mine having made proviſion of Apples for Cider, vvhereof ſo great a part vvere found rotten vvhen the time of grinding them came, that they did as 'tvvere vvaſh the room vvith their juice, through vvhich they vvere carried to the vvring, had Cider from them not only paſſable, but exceeding good; […]"; "In order to avoid a great deal of trouble, and to perform the work more effectually, by diveſting the nevv made Cyder of vvhat pummice and other impurities remain; after ſtraining it through a hair ſieve, on its coming from the VVring, or Preſs, it is neceſſary to be provided vvith a large open vat, keeve, or clive, vvhich vvill contain a vvhole pounding, or making of Cyder; or as much as can be preſſed in one day: […]"; "Take any quantity of cider that is old, strong, harsh, or of an inferior quality, and add to it the same quantity of cider from the wring, or press; rouse it up well, and fix it in a warm place, or in the sun, which is certainly the best for its progress; […]"Synonyms: pressarchaic
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