Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cittern"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cittern \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. [Written also {cithern}.]
--Shak.
Note: Not to be confounded with zither.
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