cabiri, prop. n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. Ka`beiroi.].
Certain deities originally worshiped with mystical rites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards throughout Greece; -- also called sons of Hephæstus (or Vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals. Liddell & Scott. [1913 Webster]