cittern : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cittern	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for cittern
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cittern n a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings Synonym(s): cittern, cithern, cither, citole, gittern
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.