2. (Billiards & Pool)
(a) 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}.
(b) Act of stringing for break.
3. A hoax; a trumped-up or ``fake'' story. [Slang]
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 (pl.), 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.
8. (Shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks,
corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and
bolted to it.
9. (Bot.) 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. (Mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic
vein. --Ure.
11. (Arch.) Same as {Stringcourse}.
12. (Billiards) The points made in a game.
{String band} (Mus.), a band of musicians using only, or
chiefly, stringed instruments.
{String beans}.
(a) A dish prepared from the unripe pods of several kinds
of beans; -- so called because the strings are
stripped off.
(b) Any kind of beans in which the pods are used for
cooking before the seeds are ripe; usually, the low
bush bean.
{To have two strings to one's bow}, to have a means or
expedient in reserve in case the one employed fails.
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.