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Answer for the clue "Small creatures ", 7 letters:
atomies
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "atoms," also "diminutive beings," from atomy , from Latin atomi , plural of atomus (see atom ), but taken as a singular in English and re-pluralized in the native way. Perhaps also in some cases a plural of atomy (from misdivision of anatomy ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (atomy English)
Usage examples of atomies.
Benignest kinship bids respond, When wail the weak, and them restore Whom days as fell as this may rive, While Earth sits ebon in her gloom, Us atomies of life alive Unheeding, bent on life to come.
It was then that I conceived the idea of boiling, to gather together the tiny atomies of phlogiston.
Thirty-two years since, up against the sun, Seven shapes, thin atomies to lower sight, Labouringly leapt and gained thy gabled height, And four lives paid for what the seven had won.