Spright

(sprīt), n. [Contracted from spirit, q. v. Cf. Ger. sprit, spirit, liquor, from Lat. spiritus. It should be written sprite.]

1Sense 1. The same as SPIRIT. [Obs.] See SPIRIT.

Hold thou my heart; establish thou my sprights. Sidney.

Wondrous great grief groweth in my spright. Spenser.

To thee, O Father, Son, and Sacred Spright. Fairfax.

2Sense 2. A spirit; a shade; a soul; an incorporeal agent; an apparition.

Forth he called, out of deep darkness dread, Legions of sprights. Spenser.

And gaping graves received the guilty spright. Dryden.

3Sense 3. An arrow. [Obs.] Bacon.