Word Meanings - STRING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it. (more info) G. strang, Icel. strengr, Sw. sträng, Dan. stræng; probably from the adj., E. strong ; or perhaps originally meaning, twisted,
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An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it. (more info) G. strang, Icel. strengr, Sw. sträng, Dan. stræng; probably from the adj., E. strong ; or perhaps originally meaning, twisted, 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. Shak. Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string. Prior. 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. "A string of islands." Gibbon. 3. A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together. Milton. 4. The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp, or violin; specifically , the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme. "An instrument of ten strings." Ps. xxx. iii. 2. Me softer airs befit, and softer strings Of lute, or viol still. Milton. 5. The line or cord of a bow. Ps. xi. 2. He twangs the grieving string. Pope. 6. A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root. Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom. Bacon. 7. A nerve or tendon of an animal body. The string of his tongue was loosed. Mark vii. 35.
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- STRE
Straw. Chaucer. - STROKER
One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton. - STRONTIAN
Strontia. - STROMATIC
Miscellaneous; composed of different kinds. - STRATARITHMETRY
The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure. - STREPITORES
A division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs. - STRAPPING
Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar. - STRIATUM
The corpus striatum. - STRUTTING
from Strut, v. -- Strut"ting*ly, adv. - STRAIGHT-JOINT
Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring - STRAINABLE
1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed. - STROMATOLOGY
The history of the formation of stratified rocks. - STRUVITE
A crystalline mineral found in guano. It is a hydrous phosphate of magnesia and ammonia. - STRATEGIC; STRATEGICAL
Of or pertaining to strategy; effected by artifice. -- Stra*te"gic*al*ly, adv. Strategic line , a line joining strategic points. -- Strategic point , any point or region in the theater or warlike operations which affords to its possessor - STRAP-SHAPED
Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla. - STRATUM
A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds of other kinds. Also used figuratively. 2. A bed or layer artificially made; a course. - STRIPPING
The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required - STREPTOTHRIX
A genus of bacilli occurring of the form of long, smooth and apparently branched threads, either straight or twisted. - STRATOGRAPHY
A description of an army, or of what belongs to an army. - STRAIGHT-OUT
Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing. Straight-out and generous indignation. Mrs. Stowe. - MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer. - IATROCHEMISTRY
Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body, - PEDESTRIAN
Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey. - LUSTROUS
Bright; shining; luminous. " Good sparks and lustrous." Shak. -- Lus"trous*ly, adv. - OSTROGOTHIC
Of or pertaining to the Ostrogoths. - REGISTRANT
One who registers; esp., one who , by virtue of securing an official registration, obtains a certain right or title of possession, as to a trade-mark. - ANCESTRY
1. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison. 2. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who - NAVEL-STRING
The umbilical cord. - INCONSEQUENCE
The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd. - ESTRANGE
extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and - TERRESTRIFY
To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. Sir T. Browne.