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String

String n. In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in American billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire.
String n. In various games, competitions, etc., a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
String n. The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play as by being pocketed or knocked off the table;
called also string line.
String n. Act of stringing for break.
String n. A hoax; a trumped-up or "fake" story.
String v. t. To hoax; josh; jolly.
String v. i. To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
String n. A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string.
String n. A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments.
String n. A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
String n. The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp, or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme.
String n. The line or cord of a bow.
String n. A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.
String n. A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
String n. An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
String n. The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans.
String n. A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
String n. Same as Stringcourse.
String n. The points made in a game.
String v. t. To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.
String v. t. To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.
String v. t. To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
String v. t. To make tense; to strengthen.
String v. t. To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.
Stringboard n. Same as Stringpiece.
Stringcourse n. A horizontal band in a building, forming a part of the design, whether molded, projecting, or carved, or in any way distinguished from the rest of the work.
Stringed of String
Stringed a. Having strings; as, a stringed instrument.
Stringed a. Produced by strings.
Stringency n. The quality or state of being stringent.
Stringendo a. Urging or hastening the time, as to a climax.
Stringent a. Binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe; as, stringent rules.
Stringer n. One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
Stringer n. A libertine; a wencher.
Stringer n. A longitudinal sleeper.
Stringer n. A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams.
Stringer n. A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like.
Stringhalt n. An habitual sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive contraction of the muscles that raise the hock.
Stringiness n. Quality of being stringy.
Stringing p. pr. & vb. n. of String
Stringless a. Having no strings.
Stringpiece n. A long piece of timber, forming a margin or edge of any piece of construction; esp.:
Stringpiece n. One of the longitudinal pieces, supporting the treads and rises of a flight or run of stairs.
Stringy a. Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.
Stringy a. Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely.

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