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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

sylphide

, fem. See

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.

sylphid ‎(plural sylphids)

(poetic) A young or little sylph.

The place of the sylphid queen. — J. R. Drake.

Ye sylphs and sylphids, to your chief give ear. — Alexander Pope.