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A citizen; an inhabitant of a city; a pert townsman; -- used contemptuously. "Insulted as a cit". Johnson Which past endurance sting the tender cit. Emerson.

Capable of being cited.

A fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense. Syn. - Stronghold. See Fortress.

Citation; quotation [R.] Johnson.

The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation. This horse load of citations and fathers. Milton.

One who cites. [R]

Having the power or form of a citation; as, letters citatory.

To call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as before a court; to summon. The cited dead, Of all past ages, to the general doom Shall hasten. Milton. Cited by finger of God. De Quincey.

One who cites.

A city woman [R.]

An ancient instrument resembling the harp.

Pertaining, or adapted, to the cithara.

See Cittern.

The manners of a cit or citizen.

Belonging to, or resembling, a city. "Smoky, citied towns" [R.] Drayton.

Aping, or having, the manners of a city.

A suborder of Arachnoidea, including the European tarantula and the wolf spiders (Lycosidae) and their allies, which capture their prey by rapidly running and jumping. See Wolf spider.

Pertaining to the Citigradæ. -- n.

One who is born or bred in a city; a citizen. [Obs.] Champan.

One who enjoys the freedom and privileges of a city; a freeman of a city, as distinguished from a foreigner, or one not entitled to its franchises. That large body of the working men who were not counted as citizens and had not so much as a vote to serve as an anodyne to their stomachs. G. Eliot.