Found 3 items, similar to Fairy.
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Definition: fairy
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: fairy
fairy
n 1: small, human in form, playful, having magical powers [syn:
faery,
faerie,
sprite]
2: offensive terms for an openly homosexual man [syn:
fagot,
faggot,
fag,
nance,
pansy,
queen,
queer,
poof,
poove,
pouf]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Fairy
Fairy
\Fair"y\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to fairies.
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2. Given by fairies; as, fairy money. --Dryden.
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Fairy bird (Zo["o]l.), the Euoropean little tern (
Sterna minuta
); -- called also
sea swallow, and
hooded tern.
Fairy bluebird. (Zo["o]l.) See under
Bluebird.
Fairy martin (Zo["o]l.), a European swallow (
Hirrundo ariel
) that builds flask-shaped nests of mud on
overhanging cliffs.
Fairy rings or
Fairy circles, the circles formed in
grassy lawns by certain fungi (as
Marasmius Oreades),
formerly supposed to be caused by fairies in their
midnight dances; also, the mushrooms themselves. Such
circles may have diameters larger than three meters.
Fairy shrimp (Zo["o]l.), a European fresh-water phyllopod
crustacean (
Chirocephalus diaphanus); -- so called from
its delicate colors, transparency, and graceful motions.
The name is sometimes applied to similar American species.
Fairy stone (Paleon.), an echinite.
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Fairy
\Fair"y\, n.; pl.
Fairies. [OE. fairie, faierie,
enchantment, fairy folk, fairy, OF. faerie enchantment, F.
f['e]er, fr. LL. Fata one of the goddesses of fate. See
Fate, and cf.
Fay a fairy.] [Written also
fa["e]ry.]
1. Enchantment; illusion. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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The God of her has made an end,
And fro this worlde's fairy
Hath taken her into company. --Gower.
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2. The country of the fays; land of illusions. [Obs.]
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He [Arthur] is a king y-crowned in Fairy. --Lydgate.
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3. An imaginary supernatural being or spirit, supposed to
assume a human form (usually diminutive), either male or
female, and to meddle for good or evil in the affairs of
mankind; a fay. See
Elf, and
Demon.
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The fourth kind of spirit [is] called the Fairy.
--K. James.
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And now about the caldron sing,
Like elves and fairies in a ring. --Shak.
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5. An enchantress. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Fairy of the mine, an imaginary being supposed to inhabit
mines, etc. German folklore tells of two species; one
fierce and malevolent, the other gentle, See
Kobold.
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No goblin or swart fairy of the mine
Hath hurtful power over true virginity. --Milton.
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