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One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows. Be content to put your trust in honest stringers. Ascham.

involuntary or convulsive contraction of the muscles that raise the hock. [Written also springhalt.]

Quality of being stringy.

Having no strings. His tongue is now a stringless instrument. Shak.

A long piece of timber, forming a margin or edge of any piece of construction; esp.:

Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.

bility to form the proper sounds, the breathing being normal, as distinguished from stammering.

Somewhat astringent.

The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred; as, sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs. "Souls in sufferings tried." Keble.

The act of covering or sweetening with sugar; also, the sugar thus used.

Exposure to the fumes of burning sulphur, as in bleaching; the process of bleaching by exposure to the fumes of sulphur.

In the manner of a whisper. [Obs.]

from Swear, v. Idle swearing is a cursedness. Chaucer.

The lapping of chamfered edges of planks to make a smooth surface, as for a bulkhead.

A genus of plants; the lilac.

of a flexible tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc. Garden syringe. See Garden.

Of or pertaining to the syrinx; as, the syringeal muscle.

A glucoside found in the bark of the lilac (Syringa) and extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly called also lilacin.

The central canal of the spinal cord. B. G. Wilder.

A small blunt-pointed bistoury, -- used in syringotomy.