A sinew.

Anatomy. A strong fibrous cord serving to connect a muscle with a bone or other part; a tendon. Also in figurative context (quot. 1560 at sense).

transferred. A natural string or cord. In an animal body: A ligament, tendon, nerve, etc.; an elongated muscle or muscular fibre; the frænum of…

A thin flat strip adapted to bind round. Anatomy. A band, a ligament. Obsolete.

A sinew or tendon.

A sinew or tendon. In later use poetic. Obsolete.

Anatomy. A structure in the animal body resembling a cord. Formerly used to render Latin nervus, Greek νεῦρον, applied both to the tendons or…

Anatomy. One of the numerous short bands of tough, flexible, fibrous tissue which bind the bones of the body together. By extension applied to any…

= ligament, n. 2. Not now in good use.

transferred. A connection between two parts of the body; ? a ligament. Obsolete.

Physiology. Applied to structures in an animal body resembling strings. A tendon; = cord, n.1 2a. Obsolete.

Anatomy. A tendon. Obsolete.

A band or cord of dense fibrous tissue forming the termination of a muscle, by which it is attached to a bone or other part; a sinew: usually…

An attendant.

A ligament. Also figurative. Obsolete. rare.

A tendon. (Cf. guide, n. 10, guider, n. 2c.)

Used in numerous modern Latin collocations to designate ligaments of the body.

A name for certain string-like structures in the animal body; with defining Latin adjective, as chorda dorˈsalis n. the notochord. chordae tenˈdineae…

Anatomy. A ligament or frenum.

a delicate band of fascia with involuntary muscle fibres disposed round the eyeball (New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon).

= tendon, n.: frequent in tendo Achillis (see tendon, n.), and in combination as tendo calcaneus n. also as one word = Achilles tendon n. at Achilles…