Kēlp'ie or Kēl'py, n.

(kēlp'y), n. [Perhaps allied to Gael. & Ir. cealg, to beguile, deceive, tempt, or to ceil, death, every thing terrible, prophecy.] An imaginary spirit of the waters, in the form of a horse, who is vulgarly believed to warn, by preternatural noises and lights, those who are to be drowned in that neighborhood. [Scot.] Jamieson.