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strung, ppl. a.|strʌŋ|
[pa. pple. of string v.]
1. Furnished or fitted with strings or a string. Cf. stringed a. 1, 1 b. Now rare or Obs.
1695Blackmore Pr. Arth. iv. 65 Choice Instruments, some Strung, and some of Wind. 1714Gay Fan ii. 40 Ceres is with the bending Sickle seen, And the strung Bow points out the Cynthian Queen. 1754Boyer Gt. Theat. Honour (ed. 2) 116 Strung, Adj. (is used to express the Strings of any thing), Lié, Cordé, Cordonné.
2. Threaded on a string.
1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. iii. 29 He found twenty two Pound weight of strung Pearls. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XV. 702/2 [Pyrotechny] Strung stars. 1901T. J. Alldridge Sherbro xv. 145 None of the women wear any clothes, there is simply a sufficiency of strung beads around their waists. 1907Arbroath Guide 15 June 2 The long line of ‘strung’ whitings overhead swing with the breeze.
3. strung out: spread out in a straggling line. Also, extended, continuing in a long series.
1902Daily Chron. 5 Mar. 7/4 The strung-out line of pursuers. 1914Blackw. Mag. Nov. 588 Mahsud raiders had attacked the strung-out ‘Kafila’ on its way down the Gomul. 1978Language LIV. 91 This falls short of accounting for strung-out MI correspondences where relative orderings remain the same.
4. In the sense of string v. 3.
a. Of nerves, feelings, etc.: In a state of tension. Also strung-up, and (N. Amer. slang) strung out (overlaps with sense c below).
b. With prefixed adv., finely-strung, highly-strung: said of persons with reference to their nervous organization or condition.
1840Dickens Old C. Shop xiv, For, when your finely strung people are out of sorts, they must have everybody else unhappy likewise. 1853Mrs. Gaskell Ruth xvi, When there was nothing to decide upon,..Ruth's mind relaxed from its strung-up state. 1875G. J. Whyte-Melville Katerfelto xviii, On Waif's strung nerves and weary frame it jarred acutely. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 855 We have already seen how highly strung and excitable the subjects of chorea usually are. 1900Daily News 17 May 3/2 The strung thought, intense vision of statesmen. 1910B. Capes Jemmy Abercraw ii. xvii, She stopped, and faced about, her eyes burning, strung passion in her attitude. 1933M. de la Roche Master of Jalna xv. 198 She worries greatly over the child and that keeps her in a strung-up state. 1967N.Y. Times 18 Aug. 22 ‘These are very strung-out kids with individual hang-ups,’ said Jim Fouratt..describing the modern runaway. 1974M. Haskell From Reverence to Rape 208 Martha Vickers' spoiled, strung-out younger sister. 1979K. M. Peyton Marion's Angels ix. 137 You don't think she might Have―? Oh, Christ! She was strung up when she left me. We both were. 1980Globe & Mail (Toronto) 20 Mar. t1/5 She takes to the streets daily in response to calls from tenants to investigate nuisance neighbours who might be strung out emotionally.
c. strung out: weak or ill, esp. as a result of drug addiction; hence, addicted to, using, or ‘high’ on drugs. slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.).
1959Esquire Nov. 70 Strung Out, in bad physical condition. 1960Jazz Rev. Nov. 8/2 Unfortunately it was at this period he acquired the ‘monkey’ and frequently was strung out. 1965N.Y. Post 3 Dec. 45/1 If one spends time talking to marijuana users, one can only conclude that the entire college population is ‘strung out’ thrice weekly. 1966San Francisco Chron. 29 June 3 Acid does nothing for me... I love to get strung out on pot. 1973Black World Aug. 59/1 The horns..lef' by some strungout junky musician. 1977Guardian Weekly 30 Oct. 15/4 Young people get strung out on heroin. |