κυμβάλον, a musical instrument in use among the ancients. The cymbal was round, made of brass, like our kettle-drums, and as some think, in their form, but smaller, and of different use. Ovid gives cymbals the epithet of genitalia, because they were used at weddings and other diversions. The Jews had their cymbals, or at least instruments which translators render cymbals; but as to their matter and form, critics are still in the dark. The modern cymbal is a mean instrument, chiefly in use among vagrants, gypsies, &c.