FAIRY
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Fair"y (?), n.; pl. Fairies (#). [OE. fairie, faierie, enchantment, fairy folk, fairy, OF. faerie enchantment, F. féer, fr. LL. Fata one of the goddesses of fate. See Fate, and cf. Fay a fairy.] [Written also faëry.] 1. Enchantment; illusion. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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The God of her has made an end,
And fro this worlde's fairy
Hath taken her into company.
Gower.
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2. The country of the fays; land of illusions. [Obs.]
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He [Arthur] is a king y-crowned in Fairy.
Lydgate.
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3. An imaginary supernatural being or spirit, supposed to assume a human form (usually diminutive), either male or female, and to meddle for good or evil in the affairs of mankind; a fay. See Elf, and Demon.
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The fourth kind of spirit [is] called the Fairy.
K. James.
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And now about the caldron sing,
Like elves and fairies in a ring.
Shak.
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5. An enchantress. [Obs.] Shak.
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Fairy of the mine, an imaginary being supposed to inhabit mines, etc. German folklore tells of two species; one fierce and malevolent, the other gentle, See Kobold.
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No goblin or swart fairy of the mine
Hath hurtful power over true virginity.
Milton.
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Fair"y, a. 1. Of or pertaining to fairies.
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2. Given by fairies; as, fairy money. Dryden.
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Fairy bird (Zo&ö;l.), the Euoropean little tern (Sterna minuta); -- called also sea swallow, and hooded tern. -- Fairy bluebird. (Zo&ö;l.) See under Bluebird. -- Fairy martin (Zo&ö;l.), a European swallow (Hirrundo ariel) that builds flask-shaped nests of mud on overhanging cliffs. -- Fairy rings or Fairy circles, the circles formed in grassy lawns by certain fungi (as Marasmius Oreades), formerly supposed to be caused by fairies in their midnight dances; also, the mushrooms themselves. Such circles may have diameters larger than three meters. -- Fairy shrimp (Zo&ö;l.), a European fresh-water phyllopod crustacean (Chirocephalus diaphanus); -- so called from its delicate colors, transparency, and graceful motions. The name is sometimes applied to similar American species. -- Fairy stone (Paleon.), an echinite.
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