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cither

British  
/ ˈsɪθə /

noun

  1. variants of cittern

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of cither

C17: from Latin cithara, from Greek kithara lyre


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Musical Never has cither a jot or tittle of Jewish ritual been discarded without a struggle.

From Time Magazine Archive

Children are cither too young to get the point or old enough to know better.

From Time Magazine Archive

The stranger was, it was soon seen, a powerful vessel, cither a large corvette or a small frigate, against which the heavily-rigged, ill-manned and slightly-armed merchant ship, had scarcely a chance.

From Paul Gerrard The Cabin Boy by William Henry Giles Kingston

A twofold music in my breast I bear, A cither with diversely sounding strings, One for life's joy, a treble loud and clear, And one deep note that quivers as it sings.

From Love's Comedy by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford

The article the is applied to nouns of cither number: as, "The man, the men;" "The good boy, the good boys."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

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