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sinew
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sinew /sin·ew/ (sin´u) a tendon of a muscle.
weeping sinew  an encysted ganglion, chiefly on the back of the hand, containing synovial fluid.
sin·ew (sny)
n.
1. A tendon.
2. Vigorous strength; muscular power.
sinew
[sin′yo̅o̅]
Etymology: ME, sinewe
the tendon of a muscle, such as the thick, flattened tendon attached to the short head of the biceps brachii. See also tendon.
sinew [sin´u]
a tendon of a muscle.
weeping sinew an encysted ganglion, chiefly on the back of the hand, containing synovial fluid.
sinew
a tendon.
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Portraits are generally painted when the subject, is at a flood-tide of life and personality: the aureate youth of Giorgione s shepherd-boys, or the fragile and complacent grace of van Dyck's women, or the sinewed middle age of Ruben's patricians.
Winter sunlight: Rembrandt's self-portraits at the National Gallery by Bruce, Donald / Contemporary Review
Tanned men in brightly- coloured racing rigs flex sinewed arms to drive horses helter-skelter through the streets.
ISLE WHERE TIME GOZO SLOWLY; ..once chariot racing's over by Law, Alan / The Mirror (London, England)
Perhaps the great had lost the spirit that sinewed together the Body of Christ, but a great many of the common folk had not.
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