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Psaltery \Psal"ter*y\, n.; pl. Psalteries. [OE. sautrie, OF. psalterie, F. psalt['e]rion, L. psalterium psaltery, psalter, from Gr. ?, fr. ?. See Psalm, Psalter.] A stringed instrument of music used by the Hebrews, the form of which is not known.
Praise the Lord with harp; sing unto him with the
psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
--Ps.
xxxiii. 2.
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n. (plural of psaltery English)
Usage examples of "psalteries".
They heard, too, the pleasant mingled notes of a variety of instruments, flutes, drums, psalteries, pipes, tabors, and timbrels, and as they drew near they perceived that the trees of a leafy arcade that had been constructed at the entrance of the town were filled with lights unaffected by the wind, for the breeze at the time was so gentle that it had not power to stir the leaves on the trees.
And all the quivering wings, all the haloes, all the trumpets and psalteries and harps, the stringed instruments and organs, the timbrels and the loud cymbals were of burnished gold, and the denizens of heaven and paradise and earth alike were as sinuous and ethereal as the tendrils of rose and honeysuckle and vine that intertwined with them, and the sky above them as blue as the irises and periwinkles under their feet, until the tips of the angels’ wings melted into a zenith all blinding gold, in which the ultimate mystery vanished from sight.