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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  String \String\ (str[i^]ng), v. t. [imp. {Strung} (str[u^]ng);
     p. p. {Strung} (R. {Stringed} (str[i^]ngd)); p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Stringing}.]
     1. To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.
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              Has not wise nature strung the legs and feet
              With firmest nerves, designed to walk the street?
                                                    --Gay.
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     2. To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument,
        in order to play upon it.
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              For here the Muse so oft her harp has strung,
              That not a mountain rears its head unsung.
                                                    --Addison.
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     3. To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
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     4. To make tense; to strengthen.
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              Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     5. To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to
        string beans. See {String}, n., 9.
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     6. To hoax; josh; jolly; often used with along; as, we strung
        him along all day until he realized we were kidding.
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        [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stringed \Stringed\ (str[i^]ngd), a.
     1. Having strings; as, a stringed instrument. --Ps. cl. 4.
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     2. Produced by strings. "Answering the stringed noise."
        --Milton.
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