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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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String \String\ (str[icr]ng), v. t. [imp. {Strung} (str[ucr]ng); p. p. {Strung} (R. {Stringed} (str[icr]ngd)); p. pr. & vb. n. {Stringing}.] 1. To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin. Has not wise nature strung the legs and feet With firmest nerves, designed to walk the street? --Gay. 2. To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it. For here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung. --Addison. 3. To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads. 4. To make tense; to strengthen. Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood. --Dryden. 5. To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See {String}, n., 9. | |
