Hypertext Webster Gateway: "stringed"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

String \String\ (str[i^]ng), v. t. [imp. {Strung} (str[u^]ng);
p. p. {Strung} (R. {Stringed} (str[i^]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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Stringed \Stringed\ (str[i^]ngd), a.
1. Having strings; as, a stringed instrument. --Ps. cl. 4.

2. Produced by strings. ``Answering the stringed noise.''
--Milton.


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