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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Sylph"id\, n. [F. sylphide, fem. See {Sylph}.]
A little sylph; a young or diminutive sylph. ``The place of
the sylphid queen.'' --J. R. Drake.

      Ye sylphs and sylphids, to your chief give ear, Fays,
      fairies, genii, elves, and demons, hear. --Pope.

 

 

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