Fairy

['feərɪ] or ['fɛri]

Definition

(noun.) a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers.

Typist: Shirley--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) Enchantment; illusion.

(n.) The country of the fays; land of illusions.

(n.) 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.

(n.) An enchantress.

(a.) Of or pertaining to fairies.

(a.) Given by fairies; as, fairy money.

Checker: Lorenzo

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Fay, elf, pigwidgeon.

Editor: Susanna

Definition

n. an imaginary being generally of diminutive and graceful human form capable of kindly or unkindly acts towards man: fairy-folk collectively: an enchantress or creature of overpowering charm.—adj. like a fairy fanciful whimsical delicate.—adv. Fair′ily.—n.pl. Fair′y-beads the separate joints of the stems of fossil crinoids found in carboniferous limestone.—ns. Fair′y-butt′er a name applied in northern England to certain gelatinous fungi; Fair′ydom; Fair′yhood Fair′yism; Fair′yland the country of the fairies.—adj. Fair′y-like like or acting like fairies.—n. Fair′y-mon′ey money given by fairies which quickly changes into withered leaves &c.: money found.—ns.pl. Fair′y-rings -cir′cles spots or circles in pastures either barer than the rest of the field or greener—due to the outwardly spreading growth of various fungi.—ns. Fair′y-stone a fossil echinite found abundantly in chalk-pits; Fair′y-tale a story about fairies: an incredible tale.

Edited by Ivan

Unserious Contents or Definition

To dream of a fairy, is a favorable omen to all classes, as it is always a scene with a beautiful face portrayed as a happy child, or woman.

Checker: Rosalind

Unserious Contents or Definition

n. A creature variously fashioned and endowed that formerly inhabited the meadows and forests. It was nocturnal in its habits and somewhat addicted to dancing and the theft of children. The fairies are now believed by naturalists to be extinct though a clergyman of the Church of England saw three near Colchester as lately as 1855 while passing through a park after dining with the lord of the manor. The sight greatly staggered him and he was so affected that his account of it was incoherent. In the year 1807 a troop of fairies visited a wood near Aix and carried off the daughter of a peasant who had been seen to enter it with a bundle of clothing. The son of a wealthy bourgeois disappeared about the same time but afterward returned. He had seen the abduction and been in pursuit of the fairies. Justinian Gaux a writer of the fourteenth century avers that so great is the fairies' power of transformation that he saw one change itself into two opposing armies and fight a battle with great slaughter and that the next day after it had resumed its original shape and gone away there were seven hundred bodies of the slain which the villagers had to bury. He does not say if any of the wounded recovered. In the time of Henry III of England a law was made which prescribed the death penalty for 'Kyllynge wowndynge or mamynge ' a fairy and it was universally respected.

Checker: Muriel

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