An old English name for a fairy; an elf. (Written also picksy)
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(Bot.) A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring.
Pixy ring, a fairy ring or circle. (Prov. Eng.)
Pixy stool (Bot.), a toadstool or mushroom. (Prov. Eng.)
... I was told, a few weeks ago, by the old man who acts as guide to the caves, of a recent instance of a man's being pixy-led. In going home, full of strong drink, across the hill above the cavern called the "Pixies' Hole," on a moonlit night, he heard sweet {511} music, and was led into the whirling dance by the "good folk," who kept on spinning him without mercy, till he fell ... — Notes and Queries, Issue No. 61, December 28, 1850 • Various
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