[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

sprite \sprite\ sprimact, n. oe. sprit, f. esprit, fr. l.
   spiritus. see spirit, and cf. sprightly.
   1. a spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition. see
      spright.
      1913 webster

            gaping graves received the wandering, guilty sprite.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   2. an elf; a fairy; a goblin.
      1913 webster

   3. zool. the green woodpecker, or yaffle.
      1913 webster spriteliness
      spritefully
      spriteful
see also:
spirit sprightly spright 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

sprite
     n : small, human in form, playful, having magical powers syn: fairy,
          faery, faerie
see also:
fairy faery faerie 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

93 moby thesaurus words for "sprite":
   ariel, befind, corrigan, dingbelle, fifinella, finnbeara, hob,
   hobgoblin, mab, masan, oberon, puck, titania, apparition,
   appearance, astral, astral spirit, bad fairy, bad peri, banshee,
   brownie, cluricaune, control, departed spirit, deviling, devilkin,
   diablotin, disembodied spirit, duppy, dwarf, dybbuk, eidolon, elf,
   erlking, fairy, fairy queen, fay, form, ghost, gnome, goblin,
   grateful dead, gremlin, guide, hant, haunt, hob, idolum,
   immateriality, imp, incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity,
   kobold, larva, lemures, leprechaun, little devil, manes,
   materialization, oni, ouphe, peri, phantasm, phantasma, phantom,
   pixie, poltergeist, pooka, presence, puca, puck, pwca, revenant,
   shade, shadow, shape, shrouded spirit, specter, spectral ghost,
   spirit, spook, sylph, sylphid, theophany, tokoloshe,
   unsubstantiality, vision, walking dead man, wandering soul, wraith,
   young devil, zombie

[4] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

sprite
     
         an operating system from berkeley
        supporting multiprocessing and distributed files.
     
        details?  references?
     
        1994-10-17
     
     
see also:
operating system berkeley multiprocessing 

[5] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

sprite
     
         a small bitmap image, often used in
        animated games but also sometimes used as a synonym for
        icon.
     
        1997-06-29
     
     
see also:
bitmap icon 

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