To ring a peal, to ring a set of changes on a chime of bells. -- To
ring the changes upon. See under Change. -- To ring in or out, to
usher, attend on, or celebrate, by the ringing of bells; as, to ring
out the old year and ring in the new. Tennyson. -- To ring the bells
backward, to sound the chimes, reversing the common order; -- formerly
done as a signal of alarm or danger. Sir W. Scott.
Ring, v. i. 1. To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly
a metallic one.
Now ringen trompes loud and clarion.
Chaucer.
Why ring not out the bells?
Shak.