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Webster 1913 Edition

Cittern

Cit′tern

,

Noun.

[L.

cithara

, Gr.

κιθάρα

. Cf.

,

.]

(Mus.)

An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum.

[Written also

cithern

.]

Shak.

☞ Not to be confounded with zither.