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noun

Sprite n.

A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition. See Spright. "Gaping graves received the wandering, guilty sprite."

An elf; a fairy; a goblin.

(Zool.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle.

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Etymology of 'Sprite'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sprite" Quotes from Famous Books

... melted in quietly amongst us, and was no longer a foreign element. Though always an object of peculiar interest, a riddle, and a theme of frequent discussion, her tenure at Blithedale was thenceforth fixed. We no more thought of questioning it, than if Priscilla had been recognized as a domestic sprite, who had haunted the rustic fireside of old, before we had ever ...

— The Blithedale Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... be a good sprite to you, Mr. Carleton," Fleda said after musing a little while,—"you are ...

— Queechy • Susan Warner

... new groom murmured. "Her mistress must be very generous, or very positive of her own charms, to keep a sprite like this maid about her. I wonder if I'll run into Karloff?" Karloff! The name chilled him, somehow. What was Karloff to her? Had he known that she was to be in Washington for the winter? What irony, if fate ...

— The Man on the Box • Harold MacGrath

... English well;—no stream Whose heaven-belying surface makes the stars Reel, with its restless idiosyncrasy; But well unstirred, save when at times it takes Tribute of lover's eyelids, and at times Bubbles with laughter of some sprite below. ...

— The Poems of William Watson • William Watson

... some mischievous sprite, I know not," growled the Hebrew, "but there is no need for ...

— The Hot Swamp • R.M. Ballantyne

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