Psaltery

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An ancient stringed instrument played by plucking the strings with the fingers or a plectrum.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An ancient musical instrument, similar to a dulcimer or a zither, and played by plucking the strings with the fingers or a plectrum.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A stringed instrument of music used by the Hebrews, the form of which is not known.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A musical instrument of the zither group, having several or many strings variously tuned, which are sounded by the finger with or without the aid of a plectrum.
  • n. Same as psalter.
  • n. The term is loosely applied to a variety of stringed instruments, some of them lyres or harps, rather than zithers.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an ancient stringed instrument similar to the lyre or zither but having a trapezoidal sounding board under the strings
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