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noun

Spright n.

Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood. (Obs.) "The high heroic spright." "Wondrous great grief groweth in my spright."

A supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost.

Synonyms: sprite. "Forth he called, out of deep darkness dread, Legions of sprights." "To thee, O Father, Son, and Sacred Spright."

A kind of short arrow. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... bring on Glanvil a throng of bores—he was 'worse haunted than Mr. Mompesson's house,' he says-and Mr. Pepys found his arguments 'not very convincing.' Mr. Pepys, however, was alarmed by 'our young gib-cat,' which he mistook for a 'spright.' With Henry More, Baxter, and Glanvil practically died, for the time, the attempt to investigate these topics scientifically, though an impression of doubt was left on the mind of Addison. Witchcraft ceased to win belief, and was abolished, as a crime, in 1736. Some of the Scottish ...

— The Making of Religion • Andrew Lang

... of life; this spright, By momentary Human sought, Plume will his wing in the dappling light, Clash timbrel shrill and gay— And into time's enormous nought, Sweet-fed, ...

— Georgian Poetry 1920-22 • Various

... sailor's yarn About Klaboterman, The Kobold of the sea; a spright Invisible to mortal sight, Who ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow