stringed (stringd)

Divinely-warbled voice Answering the stringed noise. Milton , Nativity, L. 97. but is allowed to vibrate throughout its full length. 3. Fastened with a string or strings; tied. Order of the Yellow String. See order. - Plaited string work. See plaited. - Roman string. See Ro man.-Rough string. See rough - string. - Silver string. See def. 4. - Soprano string. Same as chanterelle, 1.Sympathetic string. See sympathetic. - The whip with six strings. See the Six Articles, under article. To harp on one string. See harp. To have two strings to one's bow. See bow2. string (string), v.; pret. and pp. strung, ppr. stringing. [ Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews. Shak ., T. G. of V., iii. 2. 78. 2. To put in tune the strings of, as of a stringed instrument. Here the Muse so oft her harp has strung That not a mountain rears its head unsung. Add is on, Letter from Italy. ping" are sometimes marked by frets, as in the guitar and also in the zither. The modern harp is provided with a mechanism for raising the pitch of certain sets of strings one or two semitones by means of pedals. Of instrumentes of stringes in acord Herde I so pleye a ravyshing swetne e. Ye'll take a lock o' my yellow hair,. Ye'll make a string to your fiddle there. There's not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in Melancholy. Hood, Melancholy. 5. pl. Stringed instruments, especially the stringed instruments of a band or orchestra taken collectively - that is, violins, violas, violoncellos, and double ba es-in distinction from the wind and the percu ives. Praise him upon the strings and pipe. Book of Common Prayer , Psalter, Ps. cl. 4. 6. Something resembling a string. (a) A tendril, or vegetable fiber; particularly, the tough substance that unites the two parts of the pericarp of leguminous plants: as, the strings of beans. high - strung. Toil strung the nerves and purified the blood. Dryden, Epistle to John Dryden, 1. 89. Sylvia was too highly strung for banter. Bob took up the small stringed packet of books. George Eliot , Mill on the Flo , iv. 3. 4. In her., furnished with a string of any sort, as a cord or ribbon.