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Webster 1913 Edition


Cabiri


Ca-bi′ri

(kȧ-bī′rī)
,
p
rop.
Noun.
pl.
[ NL., fr. Gr.
Κάβειροι
.]
(Myth.)
Certain deities originally worshiped with mystical rites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards throughout Greece; – also called sons of Hephæstus (or Vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals.
[Written also
Cabeiri
.]
Liddell & Scott.