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Webster 1913 Edition
Pixie
{
, Pix′y
,Pix′ie
}Noun.
pl.
Pixies
(#)
. [For
Pucksy
, from Puck
.] 1.
An old English name for a fairy; an elf.
[Written also
picksy
.] 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. Pixy ring
, a fairy ring or circle.
[Prov. Eng.]
– Pixy stool
(Bot.)
, a toadstool or mushroom.
[Prov. Eng.]