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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..

Matico :: Matico (n.) A Peruvian plant (Piper, / Artanthe, elongatum), allied to the pepper, the leaves of which are used as a styptic and astringent..

Torulaform :: Torulaform (a.) Having the appearance of a torula; in the form of a little chain; as, a torulaform string of micrococci..

Unstring :: Unstring (v. t.) To loosen the string or strings of; as, to unstring a harp or a bow..

Open :: Open (a.) Not closed or stopped with the finger; -- said of the string of an instrument, as of a violin, when it is allowed to vibrate throughout its whole length..

Navel-string :: Navel-string (n.) The umbilical cord.

Lifestring :: Lifestring (n.) A nerve, or string, that is imagined to be essential to life..

Ligature :: Ligature (n.) A thread or string for tying the blood vessels, particularly the arteries, to prevent hemorrhage..

Gambier :: Gambier (n.) The inspissated juice of a plant (Uncaria Gambir) growing in Malacca. It is a powerful astringent, and, under the name of Terra Japonica, is used for chewing with the Areca nut, and is exported for tanning and dyeing..

Attach :: Attach (v. t.) To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like..

Phonoscope :: Phonoscope (n.) An instrument for observing or exhibiting the motions or properties of sounding bodies; especially, an apparatus invented by Konig for testing the quality of musical strings..

Stringing :: Stringed () of Strin.

Pin :: Pin (n.) A peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings..

Phloramine :: Phloramine (n.) A basic amido derivative of phloroglucin, having an astringent taste..

Bass Viol :: Bass viol () A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. See 3d Bass, n., and Violoncello..

Guava :: Guava (n.) A tropical tree, or its fruit, of the genus Psidium. Two varieties are well known, the P. pyriferum, or white guava, and P. pomiferum, or red guava. The fruit or berry is shaped like a pomegranate, but is much smaller. It is somewhat astringent, but makes a delicious jelly..

Restringing :: Restringing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Restring.

Time-table :: Time-table (n.) A plane surface divided in one direction with lines representing hours and minutes, and in the other with lines representing miles, and having diagonals (usually movable strings) representing the speed and position of various trains..

Line :: Line (n.) A linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline..

Trichord :: Trichord (n.) An instrument, as a lyre or harp, having three strings..

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