String

string, n. A small or slender rope, line, or cord a ribbon thread on which anything is filed line of tilings cord of a musical instrument; nerve or tendon of an animal body; series of things connected or following in succe ion number of points made in a game of billiards. (Shi/>- building.) The highest range of planks in a ship's ceiling.— [imp. strung p. p. strung, rarely stringed (strfngd); stringing.] To furnish with strings; to put in tune the strings of (a stringed instrument) to put on a string or thread to make tense, strengthen to deprive of strings, strip the strings from. [ME. and D. streng, AS. strenge, a cord, strung, D. streng = E. strong; Gr. strangale, a halter, E. strain, strict, etc.] — Stringed, 6tringd, a. Having strings. — String'y. a. Consisting of strings or small threads fibrous men to us capable of being drawn into a string, or strings; ropy; viscid.—String'ine , n.—String'er. n. One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, esp. for bows. (Railroad Engin.) A longitudinal sleeper. A streak of planking carried round the inside of a ve el on the under side of the beams; a long horizontal timber in a frame, to uprights, support a floor, etc. — String'-halt, n. (Far!) A sudden and convulsive twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, — corruptlv called spring-halt. Stringent, Stringency. See under Strict.