Crossword-Solution: SYLPHID 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 16

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Sylphid n. A little sylph; a young or diminutive sylph.

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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
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RODALS
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Sudden along the snowy tide That swelled to meet their footstep's fall, The sylphs of heaven were seen to glide, Attired in sunset's crimson pall; Around the Fay they weave the dance, They skip before him on the plain, And one has taken his wasp-sting lance, And one upholds his bridle rein; With warblings wild they lead him on To where through clouds of amber seen, Studded with stars, resplendent shone The palace of the sylphid queen.
The Culprit Fay Joseph Rodman Drake 2007
Indeed, she seems rather a sylphid of the Rosicrucian system, than aught more carnal; being slighter, lighter, and less than the females of common life, who have something of that coarseness of make which is doubtless derived from the sinful and gigantic race of the antediluvians.” “Well, say on, man,” quoth Charles.
Peveril of the Peak Sir Walter Scott 2004
And if I think I should feel this only as your sister, what can be precious enough to satisfy a mother?" "You, and you only," answered Percival, with his blithesome laugh,--"you, my sweet Helen, much better than nymph or sylphid, about whom, between ourselves, I never cared three straws, even in a poem.
Lucretia, Volume 5. Edward Bulwer-Lytton 2005
And if I think I should feel this only as your sister, what can be precious enough to satisfy a mother?” “You, and you only,” answered Percival, with his blithesome laugh,--“you, my sweet Helen, much better than nymph or sylphid, about whom, between ourselves, I never cared three straws, even in a poem.
Lucretia, Complete Edward Bulwer-Lytton 2009
The tale of the invisible sylphid and Eleanor Byron's elfish lover haunts me whenever I pass by, and I feel as though something was near, observing and influencing every movement and every thought." "Come, come, a-done I pray.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) John Roby 2008
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