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String :: String (n.) The line or cord of a bow.

Birthroot :: Birthroot (n.) An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties..

Bracer :: Bracer (n.) A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string; also, a brassart..

Astrictive :: Astrictive (a.) Binding; astringent.

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

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..

Cutpurse :: Cutpurse (n.) One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocke.

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..

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

Styptic :: Styphnic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a yellow crystalline astringent acid, (NO2)3.C6H.(OH)2, obtained by the action of nitric acid on resorcin. Styphnic acid resembles picric acid, but is not bitter. It acts like a strong dibasic acid, having a series of well defined salts..

Latchet :: Latchet (n.) The string that fastens a shoe; a shoestring.

Sambuke :: Sambuke (n.) An ancient stringed instrument used by the Greeks, the particular construction of which is unknown..

Stringer :: Stringent (a.) Binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe; as, stringent rules..

Funis :: Funis (n.) A cord; specifically, the umbilical cord or navel string..

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..

Cordon :: Cordon (n.) A rich and ornamental lace or string, used to secure a mantle in some costumes of state..

Unstring :: Unstring (v. t.) To relax the tension of; to loosen.

Checkstring :: Checkstring (n.) A cord by which a person in a carriage or horse car may signal to the driver.

Stop :: Stop (n.) The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated..

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