PUCK

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A celebrated fairy, "the merry wanderer of the night;" -- called also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc. Shak. He meeteth Puck, whom most men call Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall. Drayton.

2.
n.

The goatsucker. [Prov. Eng.]


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