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Sucker :: Sucker (n.) A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a plaything..

Knittle :: Knittle (n.) A string that draws together a purse or bag.

Stringency :: Stringed (a.) Produced by strings.

Crowd :: Crowd (n.) An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow..

String :: String (n.) A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root..

Stripped :: Stringy (a.) Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely..

Banding Plane :: Banding plane () A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work.

Kussier :: Kussier (n.) (Mus.) A Turkish instrument of music, with a hollow body covered with skin, over which five strings are stretched..

Rhatanhy :: Rhatanhy (n.) The powerfully astringent root of a half-shrubby Peruvian plant (Krameria triandra). It is used in medicine and to color port wine.

String :: String (n.) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans..

Stringer :: Stringer (n.) A longitudinal sleeper.

Muffler :: Muffler (n.) A cushion for terminating or softening a note made by a stringed instrument with a keyboard.

Stub :: Stryphnic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid, obtained by the action of acetic acid and potassium nitrite on uric acid, as a yellow crystalline substance, with a bitter, astringent taste..

Vibrate :: Vibrate (v. i.) To move to and fro, or from side to side, as a pendulum, an elastic rod, or a stretched string, when disturbed from its position of rest; to swing; to oscillate..

Constringing :: Constringing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Constring.

Hypocist :: Hypocist (n.) An astringent inspissated juice obtained from the fruit of a plant (Cytinus hypocistis), growing from the roots of the Cistus, a small European shrub..

Subatom :: Subastringent (a.) Somewhat astringent.

Intension :: Intension (n.) A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained; as, the intension of a musical string..

Viol :: Viol (n.) A stringed musical instrument formerly in use, of the same form as the violin, but larger, and having six strings, to be struck with a bow, and the neck furnished with frets for stopping the strings..

Spinet :: Spinet (n.) A keyed instrument of music resembling a harpsichord, but smaller, with one string of brass or steel wire to each note, sounded by means of leather or quill plectrums or jacks. It was formerly much used..

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