CITTERN

Cit″tern (?), n. [[L. cithara, Gr. κιθάρα. 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. ☞ Not to be confounded with zither.