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Sling :: Sling (v. t.) An instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other. The missile being lodged in a hole in the strap, the ends of the string are taken in the hand, and the whole whirled rapidly round until, by loosing one end, the missile is let fly with centrifugal force..

Fiddlestring :: Fiddlestring (n.) One of the catgut strings of a fiddle.

Peg :: Peg (n.) One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained..

Narceine :: Narceine (n.) An alkaloid found in small quantities in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance of a bitter astringent taste. It is a narcotic. Called also narceia..

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..

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..

Psaltery :: Psaltery (n.) A stringed instrument of music used by the Hebrews, the form of which is not known..

Banister :: Banister (n.) A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands..

Hardhack :: Hardhack (n.) A very astringent shrub (Spiraea tomentosa), common in pastures. The Potentilla fruticosa in also called by this name..

Nosebag :: Nosebag (n.) A bag in which feed for a horse, ox, or the like, may be fastened under the nose by a string passing over the head..

Mandore :: Mandore (n.) A kind of four-stringed lute.

Bowing :: Bowing (n.) The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments.

String :: String (v. t.) To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin..

Stringed :: Stringed (a.) Having strings; as, a stringed instrument..

Music :: Music (n.) The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to each other; the art of combining tones in a manner to please the ear..

Fidicinal :: Fidicinal (a.) Of or pertaining to a stringed instrument.

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

Hockle :: Hockle (v. t.) To hamstring; to hock; to hough.

Catmint :: Catmint (n.) A well-know plant of the genus Nepeta (N. Cataria), somewhat like mint, having a string scent, and sometimes used in medicine. It is so called because cats have a peculiar fondness for it..

Geranine :: Geranine (n.) A valuable astringent obtained from the root of the Geranium maculatum or crane's-bill.

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