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Meaning of CABBIRI

 
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Cab*bi"ri\ (k[.a]*b[imac]"r[imac]), 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.
 

 

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