Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete and erroneous spelling of
sprite . - noun See
sprite .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To haunt, as a spright.
- noun obsolete Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood.
- noun A supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost.
- noun obsolete A kind of short arrow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete spelling of
sprite . - verb obsolete To
haunt .
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Examples
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But ‘welcome, fair welcome,’ I cried to the spright!
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From my idle spright,/Into the clouds, and never more return!
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At length (when the spright & he had struggled together vpon the ground a good while) he was found by certain passengers, & carried home halfe dead.
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There meets with me one of mine acquaintance: I (according to the custome of Phisitians) presently aske of what disease the man died? he giueth me answere that this man vsed to come home from his labour 3. houres within night: one night among the rest he espied an hobgoblin pursuing him: which to auoid, he ran away with al speed: but being caught by the spright, he was throwne down vpon the ground.
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There meets with me one of mine acquaintance: I (according to the custome of Phisitians) presently aske of what disease the man died? he giueth me answere that this man vsed to come home from his labour 3. houres within night: one night among the rest he espied an hobgoblin pursuing him: which to auoid, he ran away with al speed: but being caught by the spright, he was throwne down vpon the ground.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And then he tels this storie following of a man-killing spright.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And then he tels this storie following of a man-killing spright.
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At length (when the spright & he had struggled together vpon the ground a good while) he was found by certain passengers, & carried home halfe dead.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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As these would-be sales reps-lips foaming at the thought of work-free income-exit Betty, their faces are far spright-lier than when they entered, with tufts of promotional brochures and cardboard boxes bearing KittyPumps (r) tucked under their arms.
Shampoo Planet Coupland, Douglas 1992
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With that misformed spright he backe returnd againe.
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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