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(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.]

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Zither'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​z/zither.html. 1828.
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