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faery

Fairy \Fair"y\, n.; pl. Fairies. [OE. fairie, faierie, enchantment, fairy folk, fairy, OF. faerie enchantment, F. f['e]er, fr. LL. Fata one of the goddesses of fate. See Fate, and cf. Fay a fairy.] [Written also fa["e]ry.]

  1. Enchantment; illusion. [Obs.]
    --Chaucer.

    The God of her has made an end, And fro this worlde's fairy Hath taken her into company.
    --Gower.

  2. The country of the fays; land of illusions. [Obs.]

    He [Arthur] is a king y-crowned in Fairy.
    --Lydgate.

  3. An imaginary supernatural being or spirit, supposed to assume a human form (usually diminutive), either male or female, and to meddle for good or evil in the affairs of mankind; a fay. See Elf, and Demon.

    The fourth kind of spirit [is] called the Fairy.
    --K. James.

    And now about the caldron sing, Like elves and fairies in a ring.
    --Shak.

    5. An enchantress. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

    Fairy of the mine, an imaginary being supposed to inhabit mines, etc. German folklore tells of two species; one fierce and malevolent, the other gentle, See Kobold.

    No goblin or swart fairy of the mine Hath hurtful power over true virginity.
    --Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
faery

see faerie.

Wiktionary
faery

n. (obsolete spelling of fairy English)

WordNet
faery
  1. n. small, human in form, playful, having magical powers [syn: fairy, faerie, sprite]

  2. the enchanted realm of fairies [syn: fairyland, faerie]

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Usage examples of "faery".

But your far song, my faint one, what are they, And what their dance and faery thoughts and ours, Or night abloom with splendid stars and pale?

Never mind the tales Baldric had made up of faeries and ogres and beasties.

A purer, richer aspect of this world, closer to the Focus yet destroyed by avarice and war, hence the Faery migration to this baser world.

Rod saw, beyond them, the faery horsemen galloping toward him, with Eorl Theofrin at their head.

The construction appears not dissimilar to glyphic text two, the most ancient of the Faery scripts.

Then it had lighted up window by window above the shimmering tides where lanterns nodded and glided and deep horns bayed weird harmonies, and had itself become a starry firmament of dream, redolent of faery music, and one with the marvels of Carcassonne and Samarcand and El Dorado and all glorious and halffabulous cities.

I asked a man I met one day, when I was looking for a pool na mna Sidhe where women of faery have been seen, bow Raftery could have admired Mary Hynes so much f he had been altogether blind?

I wanted Curyll more now than the day we had lain together by the faery pool.

From the tiny, prankish piskies who were no taller than a mouse, to the nasty spriggans with large heads, the knockers who worked underground, the gentle small people who lived in faery gardens with perfume, and finally to the good people who helped his ancestors build Kindred.

Sometimes humans stumble unwittingly upon a faery rade, or tumble into a faery ring.

Many and eternal thanks to my editor, Lauren McKenna, who has played the most amazing of faery godmothers to this story since the moment of its conception with her insight, creativity, and patience, and to my agent, Timothy Seldes, whose kind support and brilliant judgment are gifts I will always cherish and pray I will never lose.

Aejys crossed the room to her private liquor cabinet and took out her last two bottles of a rare Faery brewed wine, the best vintage she owned.

Alien abductions, Bigfoot in the piney wood hills, faeries skipping through downtown streets, goblins in the sewers.

As the battle between blessed and unblessed raged, gnomes, faeries and pixies worked to put out the fires before they spread.

Faerie, surely one of the most charming has to be Sneezlewort Rootmuster Rowanberry Boggs the Seventh, a hawthorn root faery with a heart as large as the sky and an unfortunate penchant for getting into trouble.