sylph (n.) An imaginary being inhabiting the air; a fairy.
sylph (n.) Fig.: A slender, graceful woman.
sylph (n.) Any one of several species of very brilliant South American
humming birds, having a very long and deeply-forked tail; as, the
blue-tailed sylph (Cynanthus cyanurus).
sylph A mythological creature associated with the element of air.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary📕
sylph silf, n. one of the elemental spirits of the air,
intermediate between immaterial and material beings, occasionally holding
intercourse with human creatures: a fairy.—n.Sylph′id, a little sylph.—adjs.Sylph′ine, Sylph′ish. [Fr. sylphe, of Celtic
origin; but cf. Gr. silphē, a kind of beetle.]
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