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Orpharion :: Orpharion (n.) An old instrument of the lute or cittern kind.

Zittern :: Zittern (n.) See Cittern.

Cithern :: Cithern (n.) See Cittern.

Zither :: Zither (n.) 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. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.].

Strung :: Strumstrum (n.) A rude musical instrument somewhat like a cittern.

Kin :: Kin (n.) A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings..

Cittern-head :: Cittern-head (n.) Blockhead; dunce; -- so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head.

Cittern :: Cittern (n.) An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum..

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