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Astringent or styptic in effect. [Obs.] Wiseman. -- Re*strict"ive*ly, adv. -- Re*strict"ive*ness, n.

A flying back; resilience. [Obs.] Sound is produced between the string and the air by the return or the result of the string. Bacon.

The turnings and windings of a trench or mine. Return ball, a ball held by an elastic string so that it returns to the hand from which it is thrown, -- used as a plaything. -- Return bend, a pipe fitting for connecting the contiguous ends of two nearly parallel pipes lying alongside or one above another. -- Return da…

The powerfully astringent root of a half-shrubby Peruvian plant (Krameria triandra). It is used in medicine and to color port wine. [Written also ratany.] Savanilla rhatany, the root of Krameria Ixina, a native of New Granada.

A sort of stringed instrument; a rebec. [Obs.] Nares.

A small threestringed viol; a rebec. Moore (Encyc. of Music). All can be play on gittern or ribible. Chaucer.

A necklace of diamonds or other precious stones, esp. one of several strings.

rcumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage.

capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy sirup; ropy lees.

A series of prayers (see Note below) arranged to be recited in order, on beads; also, a string of beads by which the prayers are counted. His idolized book, and the whole rosary of his prayers. Milton.

rub with rosin, as musicians rub the bow of a violin. Or with the rosined bow torment the string. Gay.

nder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring. Arbuthnot. Hatch from the egg, that soon, Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young. Milton.

rsed sine of an arc; -- so called from its resemblance to an arrow resting on the bow and string. [Obs.]

An ancient stringed instrument used by the Greeks, the particular construction of which is unknown.

ine. Byreon. Samian earth, a species of clay from Samoa, formerly used in medicine as an astringent.

A Japanese musical instrument with three strings, resembling a guitar or banjo.

A scarecrow, generally made of feathers tied to a string, hung up to prevent deer from breaking into a place. Halliwell.

which consists in frizzing the skin, and working oil into it to supply the place of the astringent (tannin, alum, or the like) ordinarily used in tanning.

onsense. "A sheer impossibility." De Quincey. It is not a sheer advantage to have several strings to one's bow. M. Arnold.

nstrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre having been made, it is said, by drawing strings over a tortoise shell. When Jubal struck the chorded shell. Dryden.