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A falconer who keeps a goschawk. [Obs.] Shak. Cowell. [Written also austringer.]

The string of a bow.

Furnished with bowstring.

A cord by which a person in a carriage or horse car may signal to the driver.

ntract itself; to constrict; to cause to shrink. [R.] Strong liquors . . . intoxicate, constringe, harden the fibers, and coagulate the fluids. Arbuthnot.

Having the quality of contracting, binding, or compressing. Thomson.

A writ commanding the sheriff to distrain a person by his goods or chattels, to compel a compliance with something required of him.

The tendon by which the eye is moved. Shak.

One of the catgut strings of a fiddle.

One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.

A nerve or tendon, supposed to brace and sustain the heart. Shak. Sobbing, as if a hearstring broke. Moore.

Cap or bonnet strings made long to tie under the chin.

A string for raising the latch of a door by a person outside. It is fastened to the latch and passed through a hole above it in the door. To find the latchstring out, to meet with hospitality; to be welcome. (Intrusion is prevented by drawing in the latchstring.) [Colloq. U.S.]

A nerve, or string, that is imagined to be essential to life. Daniel.

A kind of glossy silk fabric. See Lutestring.

A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon. Goldsmith.

The umbilical cord.

To constrain; to put under obligation. [R.] Bp. Gardiner.

To touch; to graze; to glance on. [Obs.]

To confine; to contract; to stringe. [Obs.]