Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition

{

}

Noun.

;

pl.

Kelpies

(#)

[Cf. Gael.

cailpeach

calpach

colpach

, a heifer, steer, colt,

colpa

a cow or horse.]

(Scotch Myth.)

An imaginary spirit of the waters, horselike in form, vulgarly believed to warn, by preternatural noises and lights, those who are to be drowned.

Jamieson.

Noun.

An imaginary spirit of the waters, in the form of a horse. [Local and vulgar.]

kelpy ‎(plural kelpies)