noun. A tough thin cord made from the treated and stretched intestines of certain animals, especially sheep, and used for stringing musical instruments and tennis rackets and for surgical ligatures.

noun. catgut impregnated with chromic acid, in consequence of which it is less quickly absorbed when used for sutures or ligatures in surgical operations.

noun. The intestines of sheep (sometimes of the horse, the ass, or the mule), dried and twisted, used for strings of musical instruments and for other purposes; a string of this kind.

noun. A sort of linen or canvas with wide interstices.

noun. A name for one of the olive seaweeds, Chorda filum, which is allied to Laminaria. The plant Tephrosia Virginiana: so called on account of its long, slender, and very tough roots.

noun. A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc.

noun. A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices.

noun. A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, especially of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc.

noun. The material from which such cords are made.

noun. A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices.

noun. a strong cord made from the intestines of sheep and used in surgery

noun. perennial subshrub of eastern North America having downy leaves yellowish and rose flowers and; source of rotenone

"It may have been from a play on the word catgut that so many of these ditties represent pussy in relation with the fiddle."

iodized catgut  

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