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String [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A small rope, line or cord, or a slender strip of lether or other like substance, used for fastening or tying things.

2. A ribin.

3. Round Ormonds knee thou tyst the mystic string

4. A thread on which any thing is filed; and hence, a line of things; as a string of shells or beads.

5. The chord of a musical instrument, as of a harpsichord, harp or violin; as an instrument of ten strings.

6. A fiber, as of a plant.

7. Duck weed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom.

8. A nerve or tendon of an animal body.

9. The string of his tongue was loosed. Mark 7:35 .

10. [This is not a technical word.]

11. The line or cord of a bow.

12. He twangs the quivring string

13. A series of things connected or following in succession; any concatenation of things; as a string of arguments; a string of propositions.

14. In ship-building, the highest range of planks in a ships ceiling, or that between the gunwale and the upper edge of the upper deck ports.

15. The tough substance that unites the two parts of the pericarp of leguminous plants; as the strings of beans.

16. To have two strings to the bow, to have two expedients for executing a project or gaining a purpose; to have a double advantage, or to have two views. [In the latter sense, unusual.]

String [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. preterit tense and participle passive strung.

2. To furnish with strings.

3. Has not wise nature strung the legs and feet?

4. To put in tune a stringed instrument.

5. For here the muse so oft her harp has strung--

6. To file; to put on a line; as, to string beads or pearls.

7. To make tense; to strengthen.

8. Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood.

9. To deprive of strings; as, to string beans.

String [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.

4. 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.

5. The line or cord of a bow.

6. A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.

7. A nerve or tendon of an animal body.

8. An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.

9. 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.

10. A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.

11. Same as Stringcourse.

12. The points made in a game.

String [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.

2. To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.

3. To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.

4. To make tense; to strengthen.

5. To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.

Stringboard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as Stringpiece.

Stringcourse [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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 [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Having strings; as a stringed instrument.

2. Produced by strings; as stringed noise.

Stringed Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Stringed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Having strings; as, a stringed instrument.

2. Produced by strings.

Stringency [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or state of being stringent.

Stringendo [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Urging or hastening the time, as to a climax.

Stringent [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

STRINGENT , for astringent, binding, is not in use.

Stringent [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe; as, stringent rules.

Stringer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.

2. A libertine; a wencher.

3. A longitudinal sleeper.

4. A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams.

5. A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like.

Stringhalt [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive motion of the muscles that extend or bend the hough. [This word in some of the United States, is corrupted into springhalt.]

Stringhalt [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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 [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Quality of being stringy.

Stringing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Furnishing with strings; putting in tune; filling; making tense; depriving of strings.

Stringing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Stringless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Having no strings.

2. His tongue is now a stringless instrument.

Stringless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having no strings.

Stringpiece [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A long piece of timber, forming a margin or edge of any piece of construction; esp.:

2. One of the longitudinal pieces, supporting the treads and rises of a flight or run of stairs.

Stringy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Consisting of strings or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as a stringy root.

2. Ropy; viscid; gluey; that may be drawn into a thread.

Stringy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.

2. Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely.

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9 KJV and 10 BSB verses contain “String”

2 Samuel 6:5

And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.

David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD with all kinds of wood instruments, harps, stringed instruments, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.

Psalms 11:2

For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

For behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrow on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.

Psalms 21:12

Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.

Psalms 33:2

Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.

Praise the LORD with the harp; make music to Him with ten strings.

Psalms 92:3

Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.

with the ten-stringed harp and the melody of the lyre.

Psalms 144:9

I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.

I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You—

Psalms 150:4

Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.

Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; praise Him with strings and flute.

Song of Solomon 1:10

Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.

Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.

Isaiah 38:20

The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.

The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.

Jeremiah 50:29

Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

Summon the archers against Babylon, all who string the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

Habakkuk 3:19

The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

GOD the Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like those of a deer; He makes me walk upon the heights! For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments.

Mark 7:35

And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.

Immediately the man’s ears were opened and his tongue was released, and he began to speak plainly.