cabiri

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cabiri - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Cabiri \Ca*bi"ri\ (k[.a]*b[imac]"r[imac]), prop. n. pl. [ NL.,
     fr. Gr. Ka`beiroi.] (Myth.)
     Certain deities originally worshiped with mystical rites by
     the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards
     throughout Greece; -- also called sons of Heph[ae]stus (or
     Vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals.
     [Written also Cabeiri.] --Liddell & Scott.
     [1913 Webster]