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Definition of Cithern
1. Noun. A 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings.
Definition of Cithern
1. n. See Cittern.
Definition of Cithern
1. Noun. (alternative form of cittern) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cithern
1. cittern [n -S] - See also: cittern
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cithern
Literary usage of Cithern
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell: With Illustrations by James Russell Lowell (1891)
"TO A LADY PLATING ON THE cithern. So dreamy-soft the notes, so far away They seem
to fall, the horns of Oberon Blow their faint Hunt's - up from the ..."
2. The Arts in the Middle Ages, and at the Period of the Renaissance by P. L. Jacob, James Dafforne (1870)
"Stringed Instruments: the Lyre, the cithern, the Harp, the Psaltery, the Nable,
tho Chorus, ... cithern ..."
3. Musical Moments: Short Selections in Prose and Verse for Music Lovers by Jessie Eloise Prentice] [Dodsworth (1889)
"TO A LADY PLAYING THE cithern. So dreamy-soft the notes, so far away They seem
to fall, the horns of Oberon Blow their faint Hunt's-up from the good time ..."
4. The Old English Dramatists by James Russell Lowell (1890)
"TO A LADY PLAYING ON THE cithern So dreamy-soft the notes, so far away They seem
to fall, the horns of Oberon Blow their faint Hunt's-up from the good-time ..."
5. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1859)
"though the deep and high voice of the cithern has touched me. Do you not believe
that the Devil is a Tenor? He is as false as the Devil, and therefore does ..."
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