cither

British  

/ ˈsɪθə, ˈsɪθən /

noun

1. variants of cittern

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Etymology

Origin of cither

C17: from Latin cithara, from Greek kithara lyre

Example Sentences

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

I will sing you something with my cither.

From Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian by Various

The stranger was, it was soon seen, a powerful vessel, cither a large corvette or a small frigate, against which the heavily-rigged, ill-manned and slightly-armed merchant ship, had scarcely a chance.

From Paul Gerrard The Cabin Boy by Kingston, William Henry Giles

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