STRING, n. [G., L., drawing, stretching.] 1. A small rope, line or cord, or a slender strip of lether or other like substance, used for fastening or tying things.2. A ribin.Round Ormonds knee thou tyst the mystic string.3. A thread on which any thing is filed; and hence, a line of things; as a string of shells or beads.4. The chord of a musical instrument, as of a harpsichord, harp or violin; as an instrument of ten strings.5. A fiber, as of a plant.Duck weed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom.6. A nerve or tendon of an animal body.The string of his tongue was loosed. Mark 7.[This is not a technical word.]7. The line or cord of a bow.He twangs the quivring string.8. A series of things connected or following in succession; any concatenation of things; as a string of arguments; a string of propositions.9. In ship-building, the highest range of planks in a ships ceiling, or that between the gunwale and the upper edge of the upper deck ports.10. The tough substance that unites the two parts of the pericarp of leguminous plants; as the strings of beans.To have two strings to the bow, to have two expedients for executing a project or gaining a purpose; to have a double advantage, or to have two views. [In the latter sense, unusual.]STRING, v.t. pret. and pp. strung. 1. To furnish with strings.Has not wise nature strung the legs and feet?2. To put in tune a stringed instrument.For here the muse so oft her harp has strung--3. To file; to put on a line; as, to string beads or pearls.4. To make tense; to strengthen.Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood.5. To deprive of strings; as, to string beans. |
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