SPRIGHT

n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood. [Obs.] "The high heroic spright." Spenser. Wondrous great grief groweth in my spright. Spenser.

2.
n.

A supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost. Forth he called, out of deep darkness dread, Legions of sprights. Spenser. To thee, O Father, Son, and Sacred Spright. Fairfax.

3.
n.

A kind of short arrow. [Obs.] Bacon.

4.
v.

To haunt, as a spright. [Obs.] Shak.

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