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

Tew :: Tew (n.) A rope or chain for towing a boat; also, a cord; a string..

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

Hock :: Hock (v. t.) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.

Plectrum :: Plectrum (n.) A small instrument of ivory, wood, metal, or quill, used in playing upon the lyre and other stringed instruments..

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.

String :: String (n.) A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together..

Vielle :: Vielle (n.) An old stringed instrument played upon with a wheel; a hurdy-gurdy.

Intension :: Intension (n.) A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained; as, the intension of a musical string..

Stringency :: Stringed (a.) Produced by strings.

Astringent :: Astringent (a.) Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit..

Monochord :: Monochord (n.) An instrument for experimenting upon the mathematical relations of musical sounds. It consists of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which are movable, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of readily changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them..

Stub :: Stryphnic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid, obtained by the action of acetic acid and potassium nitrite on uric acid, as a yellow crystalline substance, with a bitter, astringent taste..

String :: Stringing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strin.

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

Shamoying :: Shamoying (n.) A process used in preparing certain kinds of leather, which consists in frizzing the skin, and working oil into it to supply the place of the astringent (tannin, alum, or the like) ordinarily used in tanning..

Stringer :: Stringer (n.) A libertine; a wencher.

Astringe :: Astringe (v. t.) To bind by moral or legal obligation.

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

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..

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