Meaning of SPRITE
| Pronunciation: | | sprIt
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| | Definition: | | [n] small, human in form, playful, having magical powers |
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| | Synonyms: | | faerie, faery, fairy |
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| | See Also: | | brownie, dwarf, elf, gnome, gremlin, hob, imp, Morgan le Fay, pixie, pixy, Puck, Robin Goodfellow, spiritual being, supernatural being, Titania, water nymph, water sprite | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Sprite\, n. [OE. sprit, F. esprit, fr. L. spiritus. See
{Spirit}, and cf. {Sprightly}.]
1. A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition. See
{Spright}.
Gaping graves received the wandering, guilty sprite.
--Dryden.
2. An elf; a fairy; a goblin.
3. (Zo["o]l.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
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An operating system from Berkeley supporting multiprocessing and distributed files. A small bitmap image, often used in animated games but also sometimes used as a synonym for icon.
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