Cit"tern (?), n. [L.cithara, Gr. . Cf. Cithara, Gittern.] Mus.
An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum.
Shak.
⇒ Not to be confounded with zither.
© Webster 1913.
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