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

Aribin. Round Ormonds knee thou tyst the mystic string.

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

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

A fiber, as of a plant. Duck weed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom.

Anerve or tendon of an animal body. The string of his tongue was loosed. Mark 7:35.

The line or cord of a bow. He twangs the quivring string.

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

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.

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

pret. and pp. strung.

To furnish with strings. Has not wise nature strung the legs and feet?

To put in tune a stringed instrument. For here the muse so oft her harp has strung-- .

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

To make tense; to strengthen. Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood.

To deprive of strings; as, to string beans.