Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Southey's poem. “The Curse of Kehama” (1810), one of a race of beautiful sprites. Glenoid notch.See
notch .
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- noun A fictional
sprite
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Examples
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EREEN'IA (3 _syl. _), a glendoveer 'or good spirit, the beloved son of
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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And when he caught the maiden waiting for her father, who was gone to release the glendoveer from the submerged city of Baly, Baly himself came to her rescue.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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The glendoveer now craved Seeva for vengeance, but the god sent him to Yamen (_i. e.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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