Search the Dictionary

Having strings; as, a stringed instrument. Ps. cl. 4.

Furnished with bowstring.

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.

c rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed instrument.

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A keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the pianoforte. See Clarichord.

, n. (Mus.) Double bass; -- applied to any instrument of the same deep range as the stringed double bass; as, the contrabass ophicleide; the cotrabass tuba or bombardon.

An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow. [Written also croud, crowth, cruth, and crwth.] A lackey that . . . can warble upon a crowd a little. B. Jonson.

A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.

Of or pertaining to a stringed instrument.

ratory knives of mowing and reaping machines play. -- Finger board (Mus.), the part of a stringed instrument against which the fingers press the strings to vary the tone; the keyboard of a piano, organ, etc.; manual. -- Finger bowl or glass, a bowl or glass to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table. -- Finger f…

uperseded the old recorder. Flageolet tones (Mus.), the naturel harmonics or overtones of stringed instruments.

A stringed instrument of music resembling the lute or the violin, but larger, and having six strings, three of silk covered with silver wire, and three of catgut, -- played upon with the fingers.

mplement, by which musical sounds are produced; as, a musical instrument. Praise him with stringed instruments and organs. Ps. cl. 4. But signs when songs and instruments he hears. Dryden.

A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or "sides," arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings ar…

A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.

A kind of four-stringed lute.