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Rebec :: Rebec (n.) An instrument formerly used which somewhat resembled the violin, having three strings, and being played with a bow..

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

Hamstring :: Hamstring (n.) One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh..

Mucous :: Mucous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, mucus; slimy, ropy, or stringy, and lubricous; as, a mucous substance..

Restringent :: Restringent (a.) Restringing; astringent; styptic.

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..

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

Lute :: Lute (n.) A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or sides, arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed..

Viol :: Viol (n.) A stringed musical instrument formerly in use, of the same form as the violin, but larger, and having six strings, to be struck with a bow, and the neck furnished with frets for stopping the strings..

Heartstring :: Heartstring (n.) A nerve or tendon, supposed to brace and sustain the heart..

Haricot :: Haricot (n.) The ripe seeds, or the unripe pod, of the common string bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), used as a vegetable. Other species of the same genus furnish different kinds of haricots..

Monesia :: Monesia (n.) The bark, or a vegetable extract brought in solid cakes from South America and believed to be derived from the bark, of the tree Chrysophyllum glycyphloeum. It is used as an alterative and astringent..

Point :: Point (n.) A a string or lace used to tie together certain parts of the dress.

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..

Tight :: Tight (superl.) Pressing; stringent; not easy; firmly held; dear; -- said of money or the money market. Cf. Easy, 7..

Apocrustic :: Apocrustic (a.) Astringent and repellent.

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

Chord :: Chord (n.) The string of a musical instrument.

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

Strand :: Strand (n.) One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed..

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