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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..

Append :: Append (v. t.) To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column..

Corbel-table :: Corbel-table (n.) A horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them; also, less properly used to include the stringcourse on them..

Obstringe :: Obstringe (v. t.) To constrain; to put under obligation.

String :: String (n.) The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp, or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme..

District :: District (a.) Rigorous; stringent; harsh.

Octachord :: Octachord (n.) An instrument of eight strings; a system of eight tones.

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

Sub- :: Sub- () A prefix signifying under, below, beneath, and hence often, in an inferior position or degree, in an imperfect or partial state, as in subscribe, substruct, subserve, subject, subordinate, subacid, subastringent, subgranular, suborn. Sub- in Latin compounds often becomes sum- before m, sur before r, and regularly becomes suc-, suf-, sug-, and sup- before c, f, g, and p respectively. Before c, p, and t it sometimes takes form sus- (by the dropping of b from a collateral form, subs-)..

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..

Latchstring :: Latchstring (n.) A string for raising the latch of a door by a person outside. It is fastened to the latch and passed through a hole above it in the door.

Lutestring :: Lutestring (n.) A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon..

Astringed :: Astringed (imp. & p. p.) of Astring.

Abstringe :: Abstringe (v. t.) To unbind.

Copperas :: Copperas (n.) Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a tonic in medicine, etc. It is made on a large scale by the oxidation of iron pyrites. Called also ferrous sulphate..

Astringing :: Astringing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Astring.

Kino :: Kino (n.) The dark red dried juice of certain plants, used variously in tanning, in dyeing, and as an astringent in medicine..

Marionette :: Marionette (n.) A puppet moved by strings, as in a puppet show..

Logwood :: Logwood (n.) The heartwood of a tree (Haematoxylon Campechianum), a native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a crystalline substance called haematoxylin, and is used largely in dyeing. An extract from this wood is used in medicine as an astringent. Also called Campeachy wood, and bloodwood..

Ropy :: Ropy (a.) capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy sirup; ropy lees..

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