Sprite

Definitions

1. Any of various supernatural beings, loosely defined:
2. A spirit; a soul; a shade.
3. A colourless, caffeine-free, lemon and lime-flavoured soft drink.
4. An apparition; a ghost.
5. An elf, fairy, or goblin; one with a small humanlike physical body.
6. A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene.
7. A large electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm, which appears as a luminous red or orange flash.
8. The green woodpecker, or yaffle (Picus viridis).
9. Any of various African damselflies of the genus Pseudagrion (of which, Australian species are named riverdamsels).
10. A spayed female ferret.

Equivalents

Examples

“He who torments the chafer's sprite Weaves a bower in endless night.”

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