Dwarf
[dwɔːf] or [dwɔrf]
Definition
(noun.) a plant or animal that is atypically small.
(noun.) a person who is markedly small.
(verb.) check the growth of; 'the lack of sunlight dwarfed these pines'.
Editor: Maynard--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being.
(v. t.) To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
(v. i.) To become small; to diminish in size.
Inputed by Clinton
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Pygmy, hop o' my thumb.
v. a. Stunt, hinder from growth.
Checked by Hayes
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Lower, stunt, depress
ANT:Heighten, elevate, raise
SYN:Pigmy, {[imp]?}, abortion, puck
ANT:Giant, monster, Hercules
Editor: Roxanne
Definition
n. an animal or plant that does not reach the ordinary height: a diminutive man.—v.t. to hinder from growing: to make to appear small.—adjs. Dwarf′ish Dwarf like a dwarf: very small: despicable.—adv. Dwarf′ishly.—n. Dwarf′ishness.—Dwarfed trees small trees growing in flower-pots a characteristic ornament in Chinese and Japanese houses and gardens.
Edited by Griffith
Unserious Contents or Definition
This is a very favorable dream. If the dwarf is well formed and pleasing in appearance, it omens you will never be dwarfed in mind or stature. Health and good constitution will admit of your engaging in many profitable pursuits both of mind and body. To see your friends dwarfed, denotes their health, and you will have many pleasures through them. Ugly and hideous dwarfs, always forebodes distressing states.
Checker: Lowell
Examples
- Is a new dress, a new custom, a new singer, a new dancer, a new form of jewellery, a new dwarf or giant, a new chapel, a new anything, to be set up? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I particularly recollect his case, from his being took by a dwarf. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Where would he hide himself when the dwarf with seven fingers on each hand, no upper lip, and his under-jaw gone, came down in his majesty? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The more immediate scenery consisted of fields and farm-houses outside the car and a monster-headed dwarf and a moustached woman inside it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- You should have said, short as a dwarf, returned Jacques Two. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The dense brown line of the trees on the opposite bank appeared above it, like a dwarf forest floating in the sky. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- If you want dwarfs--I mean just a few dwarfs for a curiosity--go to Genoa. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There may be giants and dwarfs,' the first peasant said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- There are plenty of dwarfs all over Italy, but it did seem to me that in Milan the crop was luxuriant. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Checker: Wayne