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Definition of Cither
1. Noun. A musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers.
2. Noun. A 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings.
Definition of Cither
1. Noun. (alternative form of cittern) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cither
1. cittern [n -S] - See also: cittern
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cither
Literary usage of Cither
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... since ho would cither haro found a person he did uot know, to whom to speak
his mind, or one whom ho knew but could not trust For all the members of the ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Rostrum fret', not supported by cither the prosternum or the basal segments of
the appendages. Appendages of 1st pair large, ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1826)
"... right well prophesied, that diseases were cither procured by musick, or mitigated.
SUBSECT. IV. Mirth and merry company, fair objects, remedies. and ..."
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