Crossword clues for stringed
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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?
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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. To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
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To make tense; to strengthen.
Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood.
--Dryden. To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.
To hoax; josh; jolly; often used with along; as, we strung him along all day until he realized we were kidding.
Stringed \Stringed\ (str[i^]ngd), a.
Having strings; as, a stringed instrument.
--Ps. cl. 4.Produced by strings. ``Answering the stringed noise.''
--Milton.
Wiktionary
Having strings. v
(en-past of: string)
WordNet
Usage examples of "stringed".
Two persons playing the organistrum, a stringed instrument vibrated by means of a circular bow or wheel, like the hurdy-gurdy.
According to Josephus, this great number was vastly increased in still later times, the numbers given being 200,000 trumpeters and 40,000 harpers and players upon stringed instruments.
The main instrument of their culture-music is the ke, a stringed instrument entirely unlike any other of which we have accounts, saving the Japanese ko-ko, which was most likely derived from it.
As already suggested, it seems that the harp must have been the oldest type of stringed instrument of all.
He desired such pieces as could be produced in private circles, and would therefore prefer quartettes and quintettes for stringed instruments, and sextettes, octettes and nonettes for stringed and wind instruments.
I heard the lepers wailing for food--only the wailing was peculiarly harmonious and rhythmic, and it was accompanied by the music of stringed instruments, violins, guitars, ukuleles, and banjos.
He held up his bow and nodded to his musicians, a collection of stringed instruments, a pair of percussionists, and three men playing flutes of various sizes.
There were nauseous musical instruments, stringed, brass, and wood-wind, on which St John and I sometimes produced dissonances of exquisite morbidity and cacodaemoniacal ghastliness.
On the one solid wall hung a variety of spears, their barbed heads differing in design and weight, a small stringed instrument, a hand drum that looked well used, four wooden pipes of different lengths and circumferences, and an ancient tambourine, its trailing ribbons sun-faded to shades of gray and beige.
The harp and the lyre but only simple versions no fancy corners or complex scales must be in this pile, got to find Dodds on the Corybantes under here careful, carefully avoid stress worse than all the stringed instruments put together, isn't flute playing an art that seeks only pleasure?
As amorousness is the pastime of players of stringed instruments, and horse-racing the relaxation of the brass section of the orchestra, so eating is the pleasure, and sometimes the vice, of singers.
Two were musicians playing a descant recorder and a kit violin, a tiny stringed instrument which was bowed instead of being plucked like the lutes Cashel was familiar with.
Although dwarfs did not, as a rule, play stringed instruments, Glod knew a guitar when he saw one.
The odd-shaped one Helva identified, after a moment's reflection, as an ancient stringed instrument called a guitar.
Though we could not see musicians from where we stood, the sounds of their instruments came to us clearly: drums, gongs, trumpets, panpipes, and several sonorous stringed instruments.