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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..

Stringer :: Stringer (n.) One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows..

String :: String (n.) A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root..

Fiddle :: Fiddle (n.) A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather..

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

Cord :: Cord (n.) A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together..

Styracin :: Stypticity (n.) The quality or state of being styptic; astringency.

Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part..

Action :: Action (n.) The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe.

Constringed :: Constringed (imp. & p. p.) of Constring.

String :: String (n.) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans..

Ligature :: Ligature (n.) A thread or string for tying the blood vessels, particularly the arteries, to prevent hemorrhage..

Catgut :: Catgut (n.) A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc..

Top :: Top (n.) A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem, the motion being sometimes continued by means of a whip..

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.

Pentachord :: Pentachord (n.) An ancient instrument of music with five strings.

Stypticity :: Styptical (a.) Styptic; astringent.

Snare :: Snare (n.) The gut or string stretched across the lower head of a drum.

String :: String (v. t.) To make tense; to strengthen.

Mastic :: Mastic (n.) A resin exuding from the mastic tree, and obtained by incision. The best is in yellowish white, semitransparent tears, of a faint smell, and is used as an astringent and an aromatic, also as an ingredient in varnishes..

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