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Webster 1913 Edition
Zither
Zith′er
,Noun.
[G.
zither
. See Cittern
.] (Mus.)
An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it.
[Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped
cittern
, or cithern
.]