n. The breath; the vital principle; the spirit.n. A disembodied soul; a ghost; a shade.n. An elf; a fairy; a goblin.n. The faculty of thought and feeling; the wit; the mind.n. Frame of mind; mood; humor; spirits: sometimes in the plural.To haunt, as a sprite.n. A short arrow intended to be fired from a musket.n. The green woodpecker, Gecinus viridis. Also wood-spite, wood-spack. See cut under popinjay.n. A beach-crab, especially Ocypoda arenaria.