Definition of string

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String (v. t.) To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it..

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Necklace :: Necklace (n.) A string of beads, etc., or any continuous band or chain, worn around the neck as an ornament..
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..
Neginoth :: Neginoth (n. pl.) Stringed instruments.
Lyre :: Lyre (n.) A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry..
Symphony :: Symphony (n.) A stringed instrument formerly in use, somewhat resembling the virginal..
Stringboard :: String (v. t.) To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9..
Tab :: Tab (n.) The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.
Bowstringed :: Bowstringed (p.a.) Furnished with bowstring.
Catling :: Catling (n.) Catgut; a catgut string.
Cordon :: Cordon (n.) A rich and ornamental lace or string, used to secure a mantle in some costumes of state..
Stringhalt :: Stringer (n.) A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like..
Harmonics :: Harmonics (n.) Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteenth, and the seventeenth. The name is also applied to the artificial tones produced by a string or column of air, when the impulse given to it suffices only to make a part of the string or column vibrate; overtones..
Dade :: Dade (v. i.) To walk unsteadily, as a child in leading strings, or just learning to walk; to move slowly..
Ropy :: Ropy (a.) capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy sirup; ropy lees..
Stypticity :: Styptical (a.) Styptic; astringent.
Lifestring :: Lifestring (n.) A nerve, or string, that is imagined to be essential to life..
Ribible :: Ribible (n.) A small threestringed viol; a rebec.
Looped :: Looped (a.) Bent, folded, or tied, so as to make a loop; as, a looped wire or string..
Bowstringing :: Bowstringing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bowstrin.
Table :: Table (n.) A stringcourse which includes an offset; esp., a band of stone, or the like, set where an offset is required, so as to make it decorative. See Water table..
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