Anagrams of: ESTRING

• something left after other parts have been taken away

• freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)

• a pause for relaxation

• a state of inaction

• euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)

• a support on which things can be put

• a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration

• not move; be in a resting position

• take a short break from one's activities in order to relax

• give a rest to

• have a place in relation to something else

• be at rest

• stay the same; remain in a certain state

• be inherent or innate in

• put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying

• sit, as on a branch

• rest on or as if on a pillow

• be inactive, refrain from acting

• a portable low altitude surface-to-air missile system using infrared guidance and an impact fuse; fired from the shoulder

• a cocktail made of made of creme de menthe and brandy

• a remark capable of wounding mentally

• a sharp organ of offense or defense (as of a wasp or stingray or scorpion) often connected with a poison gland

• a sharp stinging blow

• a person who sings

• United States inventor of an improved chain-stitch sewing machine (1811-1875)

• United States writer (born in Poland) of Yiddish stories and novels (1904-1991)

• a lightweight cord

• stringed instruments that are played with a bow

• a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, as a part of an instrument or a tennis racket

• a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding

• a linear sequence (as of characters, words, proteins, etc.)

• a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening

• a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod)

• (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop

• a collection of things threaded on a single strand, or as if threaded on a single strand

• a necklace made by stringing objects together

• thread on or as if on a string

• add as if on a string

• move or come along

• stretch out or arrange like a string

• string together; tie or fasten with a string

• remove the stringy parts of

• provide with strings

• leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily

• give up or retire from a position

• part with a possession or right

• accept as inevitable

• a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began in 1970 as a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students; currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam; relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel

• serve oneself to, or consume regularly

• take up mentally

• a seal (especially one used to mark documents officially)

• someone who can use sign language to communicate

• someone who signs and is bound by a document