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mischievous spirit; a playful or malicious elf; a frightful phantom; a gnome. To whom the goblin, full of wrath, replied. Milton.

One of the ropes or chains serving as stays for the dolphin striker or the bowsprit; -- called also gobrope and gaubline.

To transform into a goblin. [R.] Lowell.

A frightful goblin; an imp; a bugaboo; also, a name formerly given to the household spirit, Robin Goodfellow. Macaulay.

A goblin, in the shape of a large dog, portending misfortune. [Also written barguest.]

A goblin; a bugbear. See Bogy.

A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear. [Written also boggle.]

A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear. "Death's heads and bogies." J. H. Newman. [Written also bogey.] There are plenty of such foolish attempts at playing bogy in the history of savages. C. Kingsley.

A struggling; a contention. [Obs.] Colluctation with old hags and hobgoblins. Dr. H. More.

olklore tells of two species; one fierce and malevolent, the other gentle, See Kobold. No goblin or swart fairy of the mine Hath hurtful power over true virginity. Milton.

A dwarf; a goblin; a person of small stature or misshapen features, or of strange appearance.

Originally, an elf's child; a changeling left by fairies or goblins; hence, a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an idiot.

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

also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc. Shak. He meeteth Puck, whom most men call Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall. Drayton.

An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as Puck. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

fairy; an elf. Whilst young, preserve his tender mind from all impressions of spirits and goblins in the dark. Locke.

A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin. [Written also spuke.] Ld. Lytton.

An elf; a fairy; a goblin.