Kelpie

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A malevolent water spirit of Scottish legend, usually having the shape of a horse and rejoicing in or causing drownings.
  • n. Any of a breed of sheepdog originating in Australia.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A malevolent shapeshifting spirit, most often in the form of a horse, believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland.
  • n. An Australian breed of sheepdog.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An imaginary spirit of the waters, horselike in form, vulgarly believed to warn, by preternatural noises and lights, those who are to be drowned.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An imaginary spirit of the waters, generally appearing in the form of a horse, who was believed to give warning of approaching death by drowning, and sometimes maliciously to assist in drowning persons.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders
  • n. an Australian sheepdog with pointed ears
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