String

string, re. A small or slender rope, line, or cord; a ribbon; thread on which anything ia filed; line of things; cord of a musical instrument; nerve or tendon of an animal body; series of A things connected or following in succe ion; number of points made in a game of billiards. (Shipbuilding.) The highest range of planks in a ship's ceiling.— v. t. [imp. strung; p. p. strung, rarely re. stringed (stringd); 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.— Stringed, stringd, a. Having strings. — String'y, -T, a. Consisting of strings or small threads; tibrous; filamentous; capable of being drawn into a string, or strings; ropy; viscid. — or String'ine , re. — String'er, re. One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, esp. for bows. by a. (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 tie uprights, support a floor, etc.— String'-halt, re. (Far.) A sudden and convulsive p. twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, — corruptly called spring-halt. to Stringent, Stringency. See under Strict.