1.
[syn: fairy, faery, faerie, fay, sprite]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sprite \Sprite\ (spr[imac]t), n. [OE. sprit, F. esprit, fr. L.
spiritus. See Spirit, and cf. Sprightly.]
1. A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition. See
Spright.
[1913 Webster]
Gaping graves received the wandering, guilty sprite.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
2. An elf; a fairy; a goblin.
[1913 Webster]
3. (Zool.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
[1913 Webster] Spriteliness
Spritefully
Spriteful
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sprite
n 1: a small being, human in form, playful and having magical
powers [syn: fairy, faery, faerie, fay, sprite]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
93 Moby Thesaurus words for "sprite":
Ariel, Befind, Corrigan, Dingbelle, Fifinella, Finnbeara, Hob,
Hobgoblin, Mab, Masan, Oberon, Puck, Titania, apparition,
appearance, astral, astral spirit, bad fairy, bad peri, banshee,
brownie, cluricaune, control, departed spirit, deviling, devilkin,
diablotin, disembodied spirit, duppy, dwarf, dybbuk, eidolon, elf,
erlking, fairy, fairy queen, fay, form, ghost, gnome, goblin,
grateful dead, gremlin, guide, hant, haunt, hob, idolum,
immateriality, imp, incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity,
kobold, larva, lemures, leprechaun, little devil, manes,
materialization, oni, ouphe, peri, phantasm, phantasma, phantom,
pixie, poltergeist, pooka, presence, puca, puck, pwca, revenant,
shade, shadow, shape, shrouded spirit, specter, spectral ghost,
spirit, spook, sylph, sylphid, theophany, tokoloshe,
unsubstantiality, vision, walking dead man, wandering soul, wraith,
young devil, zombie
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
sprite
A small bitmap image, often used in
animated games but also sometimes used as a synonym for
icon.
(1997-06-29)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
Sprite
An operating system from Berkeley
supporting multiprocessing and distributed files.
[Details? References?]
(1994-10-17)