string

Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string.

(countable) A thread

a violinstring

a string of shells or beads

The string of spittle dangling from his chin was most unattractive

In 1933, disgusted and discouraged after a string of commercial failures, Clara quit the film business forever. She was twenty-six.

no strings attached

Many of those that pretend to be great Rabbies in these studies have scarce saluted them from the strings, and the titlepage.

Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom.

The string of his tongue was loosed.

the strings of beans

a single miner is often found pursuing his solitary labours at a string or thin vein of ore

They were turning tricks, doing drugs, and generally little better off than they had been before, except that they were keeping more of their money. But they seemed lonely, too, without the company of their pimp and the rest of his string.