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hantment; illusion. [Obs.] Chaucer. The God of her has made an end, And fro this worlde's fairy Hath taken her into company. Gower.

The imaginary land or abode of fairies.

Resembling a fairy, or what is made or done be fairies; as, fairylike music.

An edible species of mushroom (Agaricus campestris). Fairy ring champignon, the Marasmius oreades, which has a strong flavor but is edible.

his herd he culls, For slaughter, from the fairest of his bulls. Dryden. Whitest honey in fairy gardens culled. Tennyson.

To testify under oath; to depose; to bear witness. [A Scotticism] The fairy Glorians, whose credibility on this point can not be called in question, depones to the confinement of Merlin in a tree. Dunlop.

An unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland. [He] builds a bridge from dreamland for his lay. Lowell.

e lion had not eaten the carcass. 1 Kings xiii. 28. With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab junkets eat. Milton. The island princes overbold Have eat our substance. Tennyson. His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages. Thackeray.

An imaginary supernatural being, commonly a little sprite, much like a fairy; a mythological diminutive spirit, supposed to haunt hills and wild places, and generally represented as delighting in mischievous tricks. Every elf, and fairy sprite, Hop as light as bird from brier. Shak.

Fairyland. Tennyson.

Fairy. [Archaic] Spenser.

In the manner of a fairy. Numerous as shadows haunting fairily The brain. Keats.

A fairy; an elf. "Yellow-skirted fays." Milton.

ith childish levity. Giggling and laughing with all their might At the piteous hap of the fairy wight. J. R. Drake.

A fairy; a sprite; an elf. [Obs.] From elves, hobs, and fairies, . . . Defend us, good Heaven ! Beau. & FL.

a degrading accusation. He strides indignant, and with haughty cries To single fight the fairy prince defies. Tickell.

The name of a female fairy, esp. the queen of the fairies; and hence, sometimes, any fairy. Shak.

An imaginary monster, or hideous giant of fairy tales, who lived on human beings; hence, any frightful giant; a cruel monster. His schoolroom must have resembled an ogre's den. Maccaulay.

A fairy; a goblin; an elf. [Obs.] "Like urchins, ouphes, and fairies." Shak.

An imaginary being, male or female, like an elf or fairy, represented as a descendant of fallen angels, excluded from paradise till penance is accomplished. Moore.