See Also: RINGING THE CHANGE, crim(law)
change ringing(encyclopedia)
ringing(2)(dictionary)
ear ringing(medicine)
ringing(1)(dictionary)
ringing(dictionary)
Ear ringing(health)
Ringing Ten-Burner - Bowling(gambling)
Hegg Memorial Health Center Avera Health(health)
Dells Area Health Center Avera Health(health)

Chromesthesia (health) and RINGING THE CHANGE, crim (law)


Chromesthesia (health)


A type of synesthesia in which which a nonvisual stimulus causes the individual to perceive color. Color hearing is a form of chromesthesia. In color hearing a musical tone elicits a color. One well-studied case involved an Art teacher who had a range of consistent linkages between tone and color. For her, high octaves tended to evoke a lighter color value, while lower octaves evoked a darker color value. And rapid major chord tone sequences elicited rapid flashes of colors, "somewhat like fireworks exploding."





RINGING THE CHANGE, crim (law)


RINGING THE CHANGE, crim. law. A trick practised by a criminal, by which, on receiving a good piece of money in payment of an article, he pretends it is receiving a good piece of money in payment of an article, he pretends it is not good, and, changing it, returns to the buyer a counterfeit one, as in not good, and, changing it, returns to the buyer a counterfeit one, as in the following case: The prosecutor having bargained with the prisoner, who the following case: The prosecutor having bargained with the prisoner, who was selling fruit about the streets, to have five apricot' s for sixpence, was selling fruit about the streets, to have five apricot' s for sixpence, gave him a good shilling to change. The prisoner put the shilling into his gave him a good shilling to change. The prisoner put the shilling into his mouth, as if to bite it in order to try its goodness, and returning a mouth, as if to bite it in order to try its goodness, and returning a shilling to the prosecutor, told him it was a bad one. The prosecutor gave shilling to the prosecutor, told him it was a bad one. The prosecutor gave him another good shilling which he also affected to bite, and then returned him another good shilling which he also affected to bite, and then returned another shilling, saying it was a bad one. The prosecutor gave him another another shilling, saying it was a bad one. The prosecutor gave him another good shilling with which he practised this trick a third time the shillings good shilling with which he practised this trick a third time the shillings returned by him being in every respect, bad. 2 Leach, 64. returned by him being in every respect, bad. 2 Leach, 64. 2. This was held to be an uttering of false money. 1 Russ. on Cr. 114. 2. This was held to be an uttering of false money. 1 Russ. on Cr. 114.