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.
One who holds the doctrines of the New Jerusalem
church, as taught by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and
religious writer, who was born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. Sw...