What is an instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum. [Written also cithern.] Shak. Note: Not to be confounded with zither called?
cittern — An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum. [Written also cithern.] Shak. Note: Not to be confounded with zither. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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