Zither : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Zither	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
zither n a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers Synonym(s): zither, cither, zithern
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Zither \Zith"er\, n. [G. zither. See {Cittern}.] (Mus.) An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. Note: [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.]