Sinew
['sɪnjuː] or ['sɪnju]
Definition
(n.) A tendon or tendonous tissue. See Tendon.
(n.) Muscle; nerve.
(n.) Fig.: That which supplies strength or power.
(v. t.) To knit together, or make strong with, or as with, sinews.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Tendon.
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Definition
n. that which joins a muscle to a bone a tendon: muscle nerve: that which supplies vigour.—v.t. to bind as by sinews: to strengthen.—adj. Sin′ewed furnished with sinews: (Shak.) strong vigorous.—n. Sin′ewiness the state or quality of being sinewy.—adjs. Sin′ewless having no sinews: without strength or power; Sin′ew-shrunk applied to a horse which has become gaunt-bellied from being overdriven; Sin′ewy Sin′ewous furnished with sinews: consisting of belonging to or resembling sinews: strong: vigorous.—Sinews of war money.
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Examples
- These arrow-heads have generally a shoulder where the arrow was set into the shaft, there to be bound tightly with sinew or fiber. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- His small hand's fine mechanism, now flaccid and unbent, would in the growth of sinew and muscle, have achieved works of beauty or of strength. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- These they generally backed with sinew. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A sarcasm from her eyes or lips puts strength into every nerve and sinew I have. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He came of a line of resourceful, fearless Scotch-Irish settlers, bone of the bone and sinew of the sinew of those generations that laid the broad foundations of the United States. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Howe had the patience to wait, and in one way and another obtained the sinews of war to sue the infringers of his patents. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Canoes are made of logs hollowed out, or of birch bark stretched over a light frame, skilfully fastened with deers’ sinews and rendered water-tight by pitch. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- At last came she whom Tarzan sought, with lithe sinews rolling beneath shimmering hide; fat and glossy came Sabor, the lioness. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- They long made use of cordage twisted from cotton and other fibers, or formed from the inner bark of various trees and the roots of others, and from the hairs, skins and sinews of animals. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There's power here, said Mr. Jaggers, coolly tracing out the sinews with his forefinger. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I feel their irons already tear my sinews! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I arose again, laughing at my forgetfulness, and soon had mastered once more the art of attuning my earthly sinews to these changed conditions. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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