Crossword clues for dwarfs
dwarfs
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dwarf \Dwarf\, n.; pl. Dwarfs. [OE. dwergh, dwerf, dwarf, AS. dweorg, dweorh; akin to D. dwerg, MHG. twerc, G. zwerg, Icel. dvergr, Sw. & Dan. dverg; of unknown origin.]
An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind.
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Especially: A diminutive human being, small in stature due to a pathological condition which causes a distortion of the proportions of body parts to each other, such as the limbs, torso, and head. A person of unusually small height who has normal body proportions is usually called a midget.
Note: During the Middle Ages dwarfs as well as fools shared the favor of courts and the nobility.
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(Folklore) A small, usually misshapen person, typically a man, who may have magical powers; mythical dwarves were often depicted as living underground in caves.
Note: Dwarf is used adjectively in reference to anything much below the usual or normal size; as, a dwarf pear tree; dwarf honeysuckle.
Dwarf elder (Bot.), danewort.
Dwarf wall (Arch.), a low wall, not as high as the story of a building, often used as a garden wall or fence.
--Gwilt.
Wiktionary
Wikipedia
Dwarfs in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels are similar to the Dwarves of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, to which they largely started out as a homage, and dwarves in other fantasy novels. They are short, stocky, bearded metal-workers, generally seen wearing chain mail and brandishing axes. However, they have many unique qualities.
Dwarfs originate from the Ramtops and Überwald, but many have moved down to the Sto Plains ( Ankh-Morpork is now the largest dwarfish colony on the Disc outside of Überwald).
Incidentally, Pratchett uses the plural "dwarfs", not Tolkien's "dwarves", and "dwarfish" instead of "dwarven".
Dwarfs!? is an indie strategy video game developed by Power of Two and originally published by Tripwire Interactive on 4 May 2011. In the game, the player acts as the overseer for an underground Dwarf colony, as the player must defend them by doing things such as building walls, solidifying rock, and bombing holes as they mine for resources. The game boasts multiple game modes, which range from an arcade mode where the goal is getting the highest score, to a tower defense mode.
Usage examples of "dwarfs".
The war between the dwarfs and the trolls was a battle of natural forces, like the war between the wind and the waves.
Koom Valley Day and Ankh-Morpork was full of trolls and dwarfs, and you know what?
The further trolls and dwarfs got from the mountains, the more that bloody, bloody Koom Valley mattered.
Now, there were too many dwarfs and trolls - no, mental correction, the city had been enriched by vibrant, growing communities of dwarfs and trolls - and there was more yes, call it venom in the air.
But in one, little figures of trolls were pursuing dwarfs from right to left, and, in the other, dwarfs were chasing trolls from left to right.
Koom Valley, where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs and the dwarfs ambushed the trolls.
The reasoning was faultless: in lots of areas, right now, dwarfs or trolls were wandering around in groups or, alternatively, staying still in groups in case any of those wandering bastards tried any trouble in this neighbourhood.
Even if it is just a painting of a load of dwarfs and trolls having a scrap.
Did you know that more than two thousand, four hundred and ninety individual dwarfs and trolls can be identified by armour or body markings in the original picture?
Ringfounder really wants to make sergeant and frankly I overheard them, but I doubt if the printing dwarfs would mention it to the editor.
Street was just the kind of area the dwarfs colonized - on the edge of the less pleasant parts of town, but not all the way there.
They got their news from other dwarfs, to ensure that it was new and fresh and full of personality, and no doubt it grew all kinds of extras in the telling.
These declared to those who recognized them that they were working for deep-down dwarfs and, as such, partook a little of the magic, mana, awe or fear that they engendered in the average, backsliding dwarf.
It made as much sense as what most humans believed, and most dwarfs were model citizens, even at two-thirds scale.
Are these signs drawn because dwarfs think bad things are going to happen and want to ward them off, or think the mine deserves the bad things happening, or because they want the bad things to happen?