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A keyed instrument of music resembling a harpsichord, but smaller, with one string of brass or steel wire to each note, sounded by means of leather or quill plectrums or jacks. It was formerly much used.

• Stragulum
  The mantle, or pallium, of a bird.
• Stream
  A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended i
• Stripped
  of Strip
• Straight-spoken
  Speaking with directness; plain-spoken.
• Streight
  See 2nd Strait.
• Striver
  One who strives.
• Instrumental
  Acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; as, he was instrumental in conducting the business.
• Strait-handed
  Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly.
• Strengthing
  A stronghold.
• Strokesman
  of Strokesman
• Jackstraw
  An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence.
• Stranding
  of Strand
• Streptococci
  of Streptococcus
• Strond
  Strand; beach.
• Leatherback
  A large sea turtle (Sphargis coriacea), having no bony shell on its back. It is common in the warm and temperate parts of the Atlantic, and sometimes weighs over a thousand pounds; -- called also leather turtle, leathery turtle, leather-backed tor
• SOUNDBOARD
  A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton.
• Strangury
  A painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced by spasmodic muscular contraction.
• Striae
  of Stria
• Strook
  imp. of Strike.
• Quilled
  of Quill

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