Definition of string

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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..

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Mucous :: Mucous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, mucus; slimy, ropy, or stringy, and lubricous; as, a mucous substance..
Bandore :: Bandore (n.) A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a guitar; a pandore..
Austere :: Austere () Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine..
Fidicinal :: Fidicinal (a.) Of or pertaining to a stringed instrument.
Toil :: Toil (n.) A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural..
Rupture :: Rupture (n.) The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring..
Muffler :: Muffler (n.) A cushion for terminating or softening a note made by a stringed instrument with a keyboard.
Lace :: Lace (n.) That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven; a string, cord, or band, usually one passing through eyelet or other holes, and used in drawing and holding together parts of a garment, of a shoe, of a machine belt, etc..
Open :: Open (a.) Produced by an open string; as, an open tone..
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..
Knittle :: Knittle (n.) A string that draws together a purse or bag.
String :: String (n.) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
Bowstring :: Bowstring (v. t.) To strangle with a bowstring.
Stringiness :: Stringhalt (n.) An habitual sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive contraction of the muscles that raise the hock..
Leash :: Leash (n.) A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom..
Tighter :: Tighter (n.) A ribbon or string used to draw clothes closer.
Unstring :: Unstring (v. t.) Used also figuratively; as, his nerves were unstrung by fear..
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..
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..
Port :: Port (n.) A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol.
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