a small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string.-a thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments.-a strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.-the cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp, or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme.-the line or cord of a bow.-a fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.-a nerve or tendon of an animal body.-an inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.-the tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans.-a small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.-same as stringcourse.-the points made in a game.-to furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.-to put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.-to put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.-to make tense; to strengthen.-to deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. see string, n., 9.