striking-plate 
Striking-plate (stii'kiug-plat). . In carp., in a 
centering used in erecting an arch of masonry, 
a device for lowering or setting free the center- 
ing under the arch when completed, it consists 
of a compound wedge secured by keys. When the keys 
are driven out, the wedge slips backward, and causes the 
centering to full. 
Striking-solution (stii'king-sp-lu"shon), 11. A 
weak solution of silver cyanide, witn a large 
Duck-weed . . . putteth forth a little rHin*/ into the 
water, far from the bottom. Bacon, Nat. Hist., 67. 
(d) In mining, a thin seam or branch of a lode; a small 
vein : a fissure filled with mineral or metalliferous matter, 
but wanting in regularity and permanence. (<) A nerve or 
tendon of au animal body. 
Heart with strings of steel, 
Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe ! 
Shak., Hamlet, iii. 3. 70. 
stringer 
2. To walk or move along in a string or discon- 
nected line; straggle: as, they came stringing 
along. [Colloq.] 3. In MUiards, to hit one's 
ball so that it will go the length of the table and 
back, to determine who shall open the game, 
string-band (string'band), w. A band composed 
of stringed instruments, or the stringed instru- 
ments of such a band taken by themselves. 
proportion of free potassium cyanide,in which 7 - A cord orthread on which anything is filed; string-bark (string'biu-k), n. Same as stn,i</i/- 
metals to be silver-plated are immersed for a a nle; also, a set of things strung on a string bar/,: 
few seconds to effect an instantaneous deposit or nle: as ' a *'"* beadsj hence, any series string-bean (string'ben), . A bean of which 
of silver on the metal in order to insure a per- 
fect coating in the silver-bath proper, 
striklet, striklert. Old spellings of strirkic, 
gtrickler. 
String (string), n. [< ME. string, streng, strynge, 
< AS. streiii/c = MD. strenglie, stringlie, D. streng, 
strenge, strenk (streng-), ttrank (strong-) = LG. 
strenge = OHG. strung, MHG. strtinc, strange. 
of persons or things connected or following in the green pods are used for food, prepared be- 
succession; a series or succession of persons, fore cooking by stripping off the fibrous thread 
animals, or things extending in a line. along their back. Varieties of the common 
Sw Harry hath what they call a string of stories, which kidney-bean, or French bean, are so treated, 
he tells every Christmas. Steele, Guardian, No. 42. string-block (string'blok), . In pianoforte- 
No king or commonwealth either can be pleased to see making, the wooden block into which are driven 
t string of precious coast towns in the hands of a foreign the studs for holding the loops of the ends of 
tlu> strings furthest from the tuning-pins. 
power. 
E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 291. 
mwrwnyv -^ w-tw* or/ttfii/j .iu.iJ.VJi. OIVMHI-J ^i/iinr/' , o A 1 f T_ L *""& * lv miiJiifiMJlllB* 
G. strong = Icel. strengr = Dan. streng = Sw. 8 - f dr - ve or company of horses or steers; a string-board (string'bord), n. In carp., aboard 
strang, a string, line, cord; perhaps < AS. strtm;/, ' that supports any important part of a frame- 
etc., strong (see strong); otherwise akin to L. flolng into the corral, and standing near the center, each work or structure; especially, a board which 
stringere, draw tight, Gr. aTpcr/yd^r/, a halter, antaals tlmTaVeTrottinVand^ sustains the ends of the steps in a wooden 
frpeyytf, hard-twisted: see straini, stringent, 
strangle.'} 1. A slender cord; a thick thread; 
a line; a twine; a narrowband, thong, or rib- 
bon ; also, anything which ties. 
I'll knit it up in silken strings, 
With twenty odd-conceited true-love knots. 
Shale., T. 0. of V., ii. 7. 45. 
Queen Mary came tripping down the stair, 
Wi' the gold strings in her hair. 
Mary //omitton (Child's Ballads, III. 123). 
Vouchsafe to be an azure knight, 
When on thy breast and sides Herculean 
He flx'd the star and string cerulean. 
Swift, Poetry. 
Mrs. General Likens had her bonnet-strings untied ; she 
took it off her head as she got out of the buggy. 
W. M. Baiter, New Timothy, p. 80. 
2. A strip, as of leather, by which the covers 
of a book are held together. 
Many of those that pretend to be great Rabbles in these 
studies have scarce saluted them from the strings and the 
titlepage, or, to give 'era more, have bin but the Ferrets 
and Moushuuts of an Index. 
Milton, Reformation in Eng., i. 
3. The line or cord of a bow. 
The best bow that the yeman browthe 
Roben set on a stryng. 
Robin Hood and the Potter (Child's Ballads, V. 27). 
4. 
cord or wire by the vibration of which tones 
are produced. The materials most used are gut, as in 
instruments of the lute and viol families, and brass or 
steel, as in the mandolin, the zither, and the pianoforte, 
though silk is also used. Silk strings are usually, and 
metal strings sometimes, wound with light silver wire to 
increase their weight ; and such strings are often called 
sttoer strings. The pitch of the tone produced depends 
on the density, tension, and vibrating length of the string. 
The vibration is produced either by plucking or twanging 
with the finger, by a plectrum, or by a jack, as in the lute 
and harp families generally, and in the harpsichord ; by 
the friction of a bow, as in the viol family ; by a stream 
of air, as in the reolian harp; or by the blow of a hammer 
88 j i e nl Ulc 'i, ne r.. an , d A he P' an fort *- The strings are 
are 
round the circle. "~ T.'Roosefelt, The Cen"tury"xx~XV 65& aircase. Also called striiig-pierc or xtriiiiirr. 
t*tt&SttStt&'* a ^*&&f-Z*SZ 
of the game. There is a string for each player or side, 
one white with every fifth button black, the other the con- 
verse of this, for convenience in counting the buttons to 
be moved along the wire for each run made by either player 
or side, (ft) The score, tally, or number of points 
scored by either player or side at any stage of a 
game : as, he made a poor string at first, but won. 
(e) A stroke made by each player from the head 
of the table to the opposite cushion and back, to 
determine, by means of the resultant positions 
of the balls, who shall open the game. 10. 
In arc/!., a string-course. 11. lu ship-building, 
the highest range of planks in a ship's ceiling, 
or that between the gunwale and the upper 
edge of the upper-deck ports. 12. In print- 
ing, a piece-compositor's aggregate of the proofs 
.tory. [Pi-inters stringed (stringd), a. [< string + -erf2.] j. 
, 8e l5?**; t '. 1 - n ~*S?! Having strings; furnished with strings: as, a 
stringed instrument. 2. Produced by strings 
or stringed instruments. 
Divinely-warbled voice 
Answering the stringed noise. 
Hilton, Nativity, 1. 97. 
3. Fastened with a string or strings; tied. 
Stringed like a poor man's heifer at its feed. 
Wordsworth, Prelude, v. 
Bob took up the small stringed packet of books 
George Eliot, Mill on the Floas, Iv. 8. 
String-course (sculptured), 
Amiens Ca 
century. (From triforuim of 
al, France.) 
Iwv 
In musical instruments, a tightly stretched cut to miter with the end of the riser- False string 
a or wire b 
in a musical instrument, an imperfect string, giving 
an uncertain or untrue sound. Instrument of ten 
strings, in the Bible, a variety of nebel or psaltery 
Italian string. See Italian. Open string, in musical 
instruments of the stringed group, a string that is not 
stopped or shortened by the finger or a mechanical stop, 
but is allowed to vibrate throughout its full length. 
Order of the Yellow String. See order. Plaited 
string work. See plaited Roman string. See Jto- 
man Rough [String. See rough string. Silver string. 
See def. 4. Soprano String. Same as chanterelle 1. 
Sympathetic string. See sympathetic. The whip 
with six strings. See the Six Articles, under article. . 
To harp on one string. See harp.-lo have two stringency (stnn'jen-si), n. 
4. In her., furnished with a string of any sort, 
as a cord or ribbon. 
[< stringen(t) + 
named either by the letters of the tones to which they String (String), r. ; pret. and pp. strung, 
re e resentat ive8 V o'f a t? lb r 8 ' The 8malle ? t . 8trin S of 8everal Bringing. [< string, n. As with rhig*, the sti 
to? r c e tonteree, 8 beca l iIse U com n monTy Iwed'for'the'prlnrfpBj forms of tlle principal parts conform to 
melody or cantus. The tuning of strings is effected usually 
by means of tuning-pins or -pegs, which in lutes and viols 
are placed in the head of the instrument, but in harps, 
zithers, and pianofortes in one side or rim of the frame. 
-- ..~ ....nilirs may be di- 
minished, and the pitch of their tones raised, by pressing 
them with the fingers of the left hand against the finger- 
board. The exact places for such shortening or "stop- 
ping are sometimes marked byfrets, as in theguitarand 
also In the zither. The modern harp is provided with a 
mechanism for raising the pitch of certain sets of strings 
one or two semitones by means of pedals. 
_. ~ W "> fa fm \- * " ' *"y"\"f 
-cy.J Stringent character or condition, (o) 
Tightness ; straitness : as, a stringency in the money-mar- 
ket (&) Strictness ; closeness ; rigor : as, the stringency of 
the regulations was increased. 
As the known exactness of the unifonnity became 
greater, the stringency of the inference increased. 
W. K. Clifford, Lectures, I. 156. 
strings to one's bow. See (/-'. 
'rung, ppr 
the strong 
nn to the 
supposed analogy of sing, sang, sung, etc.] I. 
trans. 1. To furnish with strings. 
..,.<, Orpheus' lute was <*ngwia, poets' sinews stringendo (strin-jen'do). [It., ppr. of strin- 
Not only has each instrument had a varying number of o _ gere, < L. stringere, draw tight, compress: see 
strings in different countries and at different periods, but 2. To put in tune the strings of, as of a stringed xtrinner, M Tn 
the accordatura, or system of pitches, to which they are instrument music, pressing or accelerating 
tuned has also varied/ The vibrating length of the sMngI Tere the Mus< o oft her haro ha. * "'? te ^ P ' " 8Ually Wlth a crescendo - Also '- 
.n instruments of the .lute and viol families may be E jS^SSS^^SSKSSi 
Addition, Letter from Italy. Stringent (stnn jent), a. [< L. stringen(t-)s, 
3. To make tense ; impart vigor to ; tone. See F*^****"*' d , raw *fc ht ' compress, contract, 
high-strung. 
Toil strung the nerves and purified the blood. 
itrydcn, Epistle to John Dryden, 1. 89. 
Sylvia was too highly strung for banter. 
Mrs. Gotten, Sylvia's Lovers, vil. 
4. 
Of instrnuientes of stringes in acord 
Herde I so pleye a ravyshing swetnesse. 
Chaucer, Parliament of 1'owls, 1. 197. 
Yell take a lock o' my yellow hair, . 
Yell make a string to your fiddle there 
The Bonny Bows o' London (Child's Ballads, II. 362). 
There 's not a string attuned to mirth 
But has its chord in Melancholy. 
5. pi. Stringed 
stringed instruments 
taken collectively t , 
loncellos, and double basses in distinction 
Irom the wind and the percussires. 
Praise him upon the strings and pipe. 
Book of Common Prayer, Psalter, Pa. el. 4. 
6. Something resembling a string. ( a ) A tendril 
or vegetable fiber ; particularly, the tough substance that 
^^ " le * umino " 8 ?"'" : 
, 
touch, graze, stroke, etc. : see strain!, strict, and 
cf. strike.'] It. Tightening or binding; draw- 
ing tight. Thomson. 2. Straitened; tight; 
constrained; hampered by scarcity or lack of 
available funds: as, a stringent money-market. 
3. Strict; close; rigorous; rigid; exacting; 
To thread file^^^^ 
-6. To prepare for use, Is a bow! by LndSg " ^l**?**"**'' '"^ "S 01 8 ^ 
it sufficiently to slip the bowstring into iS ^gf^JS.Wfc 
or pearl -stringer. 
8. To deprive of strings; strip the strings from: 2. A device for attaching piano-strings to a 
as, to srn'wflr beans. 9t. To carve (lampreys), ridge cast specially for that purpose on the 
plate, instead of winding them around tuning 
Bnbees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 265. 
II. intrant. 1. To stretch out into a string 
or strings when pulled ; become stringy. 
Let it [varnish] boll until It strings freely between the 
fingers. Workshop Receipts, 1st ser., p. 64. 
wrest-pins inserted in the wrest-pin plank, it is 
a small hooked steel bar with a screw-threaded shank that 
is passed through the ridge and then secured by a nut. 
The wire string is first passed through a hole In the hooked 
end of the stringer, and then looped once around the hook. 
