pixies

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.An old English name for a fairy; an elf. [Written also picksy.] [1913 Webster]

2.(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. [1913 Webster]

Pixy ring, a fairy ring or circle. [Prov. Eng.]

Pixy stool (Bot.), a toadstool or mushroom. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]