Enring

v. poet. Also 7 inring. [f. EN-¹ + RING sb.] trans. To put within a ring.

  1.  To form a ring round; to surround, encircle. lit. and fig. Also, to form into a ring.

1589.  Warner, Alb. Eng., VI. xxxiii. (1612), 162. Inringed by his complices, their chearefull Leader said.

1594.  Carew, Tasso (1881), 63. For Tancred and Reynold brake through the traine, That thicke of men and armes enringde tofore.

1613–6.  W. Browne, Brit. Past., I. iii. She rais’d the youth, then with her armes inrings him. Ibid., II. i. Sweet rest inrings The tyred body of the swarty clowne.

1833.  Mrs. Browning, Prometh. Bd., Poems 1850, I. 188. The deep glooms enringing Tartarus!

1839–48.  Bailey, Festus, xxi. 267. Like the pure pearl-wreath which enrings thy brow.

  2.  To put a ring or rings on; to adorn with a ring. In quots. transf.

1590.  Shaks., Mids. N., IV. i. 49. The female Iuy so Enrings the barky fingers of the Elme.

1825.  Blackw. Mag., XVIII. 434. I Will leave … the enringing with eternal shackles One’s right-hand fingers,—to whoever likes.