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stringed, a.|strɪŋd|
[f. string n. + -ed2.]
1. Having a string or strings; spec. of musical instruments such as the violin and guitar. Also in parasynthetic comb., as ten-stringed.
c1000Lamb. Ps. xci. 4 In decachordo psalterio, on tynstrængedum saltere. a1300,1535[see ten-stringed s.v. ten D. 1]. 1552Huloet, Strynged, chordatus. Strynged as a bowe is, amentatus. 1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 276/1 Hasta amentata,..a stringed or looped dart to fling with all. 1599–1843 [see three-stringed]. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xxx. ii. 380 The house rung againe with the sound of stringed and wynd instruments. 1742Berkeley Lett. Wks. 1871 IV. 284 A large four-stringed bass violin. 1871D. Cook Nts. at the Play (1883) I. 177 The orchestra..is scarcely strong enough in stringed instruments to do full justice to Mr. Sullivan's music. 1873Leland Egypt. Sketch-Bk. 55 A one-stringed banjo.
b. Her. (See quots.)
1572J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 123 Two bowes bente addorsed de Or, stringed Vert. 1864Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. xix. (ed. 3) 298 A Harp or, stringed argent. 1868Cussans Heraldry (1893) 117 Hunting-horn or Bugle... It is usually blazoned as Stringed, which signifies that it depends from two strings, or ribbons, tied in a knot above.
c. Of a running-track: Divided by stretched strings into separate runs.
1897Encycl. Sport I. 64/2 (Athletics) Sprint handicaps run over a stringed track.
2. transf. Produced by strings or stringed instruments; † made with a rosary or string of beads.
1629Milton Hymn Nativ. ix, Divinely-warbled voice Answering the stringed noise. 1655[G. Hall] Tri. Rome v. 57 Such thraves and lasts of private Oraisons, which without the well-devised helps of stringed calculation, could never keep even reckoning. 1822Shelley Zucca 72 Sounds of softest song Mixed with..stringèd melodies. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. i. xi, Three-deep these march; to the sound of stringed music. 1854Athenæum 6 May 565/1 Two movements of a stringed Quartett, by Herr von Wilm. |