cittern

See cithern. cittern-headt, n. An empty-headed person. Shall brainle e cyterne heads, each jobernole Pocket the very genius of thy soule? Marston , Scourge of Villanie, Prol. city (sit'i), n. and a. [Early mod. E. citie; E. quiet ), rest, and with Gr. κεῖσθαι, lie down, rest, Skt.çi, lie down: see quiet and cem etery. Hence (from L. civita ( t- ) s ) ult. E. citadel, and (from civis ) civic, civil, civility, civilize, etc.] I. n.; pl. cities (-iz). 1. A large and important town; any large town holding an important position in the state in which it is situated. In the United States a city is properly an incorporated municipality, usually governed by a mayor, aldermen, and common council. The number of inhabitants required to constitute a city is commonly over 10,000; but it differs greatly in different States, some (especially in the west) having incorporated cities of fewer than 3,000 inhabitants. In Great Britain the term is applied in a narrower sense to a town corporate which is or has been the seat of a bishop and of a cathedral church. The word is often used, like town, in opposition to country. And who so had be thence a myle or twayn, Vppon the feld to loke or cast his Ie, It shuld hym seme a town or a Citee . Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1981. In the United States nearly all cities have come from the growth and expansion of villagés, with such occasional cases of coalescence as that of Boston with Roxbury and Charles town. J. Fiske , Amer. Pol. Ideas, p. 64. 2. The inhabitants of a city, collectively. I do suspect I have done some offence, That seems disgracious in the city's eye. Shak., Rich. III., iii. 7. IMG:content-0495.jpg:[graphic] City of Refuge. (a) Any one of six cities, three on the east of the river Jordan (established by Moses), and three on the west (established by Joshua), to which those persons who had inadvertently slain a human creature might flee for refuge. They were Bezer, Ramoth, and Golan on the east, and Hebron, Shechem, and Kadesh on the west. (b) Medina in Arabia, where Mohammed took refuge when driven by conspirators from Mecca, his citrine in color. Eight, nine, ten days hence, He will be silver potate; then three days Before he citronise. B. Jonson Alchemist, iii. 2.