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d, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to the muscles. Paley. A huge stone to which the cable was attached. Macaulay.

n; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy. For so exceeding shone his glistring ray, That Phattaint. Spenser. Lest she with blame her honor should attaint. Spenser.

Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.

Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity. Johnson.

A zitherlike musical instrument, provided with dampers which, when depressed, deaden some strings, leaving free others that form a chord.

ed crescent of the sun's disk appears momentarily like a row of bright spots resembling a string of beads. The phenomenon (first fully described by Francis Baily, 1774 -- 1844) is thought to be an effect of irradiation, and of inequalities of the moon's edge.

A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work.

A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a guitar; a pandore.

A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands.

A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands.

A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. See 3d Bass, n., and Violoncello.

g plant of the heath family (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond.

An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See Hasheesh.

An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties.

us Polygonum, section Bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort. Its root is used in medicine as an astringent.

thing that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail. In jewels dressed and at each ear a bob. Dryden.

The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.

An ornamental knot, with projecting lops, formed by doubling a ribbon or string.

The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments. Bowing constitutes a principal part of the art of the violinist, the violist, etc. J. W. Moore.

A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.