cither
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of cither
C17: from Latin cithara, from Greek kithara lyre
Example Sentences
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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 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 Brown, Goold
The dew! for its want an oak will wither— By the dull hoof into the dust is trod, And then who strikes the cither?
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
I will sing you something with my cither.
From Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian by Various
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