Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A sprite or spirit inhabiting the water.

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Examples

  • Enter the water-sprite that is trapped in the lake near her home that can offer her a chance to swim again like she used to if they trade places.

    September 18th, 2009 douglascohen 2009

  • Anne spoke perfect Shona with a cut-glass English accent and kept a totem to ward off the dwarf water-sprite Tokoloshe above the kitchen door.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

  • Anne spoke perfect Shona with a cut-glass English accent and kept a totem to ward off the dwarf water-sprite Tokoloshe above the kitchen door.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

  • From beam to beam she skipped, like a water-sprite at play.

    Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" Various

  • As she lifted her head clear of the water a ray of the afternoon sunlight slanted across her face, touching its mischievous curves, until she looked like a naughty water-sprite.

    Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid Amy D. V. Chalmers

  • Little water-sprite that she was, she would have enjoyed the breakers dashing over her head and the tingle of the fine salt spray in her face if she had not realized the danger that lay ahead.

    Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid Amy D. V. Chalmers

  • Dripping as she fled like a frightened water-sprite, Debby burst upon the others as they sat under the magnolia and screamed tragically:

    Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party Edyth Ellerbeck Read 1924

  • For he was just a little afraid of both the water-sprite and the elf, but he didn't believe the least little bit in witches.

    The Wonderful Adventures of Nils 1922

  • The Arapahos, especially, attribute to this water-god the power of ordaining the success or miscarriage of their war-expeditions; and as their braves pass often by the mysterious springs, when in search of their hereditary enemies the Yutas, in the "Valley of Salt," they never fail to bestow their votive offerings upon the water-sprite, in order to propitiate the "Manitou" of the fountain, and ensure a fortunate issue to their "path of war."

    Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains 1916

  • I felt like a nymph, a water-sprite, or something, as I swam out to the middle and found a footing.

    The Dude Wrangler Caroline Lockhart 1916

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