- present tense form of dither (3rd person singular).
dithers
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The titles of the poems show the mood, Peter Quince at the Clavier, The Comedian as the Letter C, Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion, Colloquy with a Polish Aunt, "princox, citherns, toucans, gasconade."
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Their instruments of music are all lutes and viols, flutes, cymbals, drums, fifes, citherns, organs, and harps that Ferrari's day could show.
From New Italian sketches by Symonds, John Addington
The red had left her lips, and her voice, which had been melodious as the consonance of citherns and guitars, grew abruptly harsh and strident.
From A Transient Guest and Other Episodes by Saltus, Edgar
Procession of Priests and people, with citherns, harps, and cymbals.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Give us up your souls That our long fingers wake them verily Like dulcimers and citherns and violes; Or at the burning disk of ecstasy Impose rare sigils on your gem-like souls.
From The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence by Taylor, Rachel Annand