About The Word Dwarf
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Dwarf
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What's The Definition Of Dwarf?
[n] a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
[n] a person who is abnormally small [adj] atypically small; "dwarf tree"; "dwarf star" [v] cast a shadow Synonyms | Synonyms for Dwarf: dwarfish | gnome | little | midget | nanus | overshadow | shadow | small Related Terms | Find terms related to Dwarf: ace | Ariel | atom | banshee | bedwarf | Befind | belittle | bit | bitsy | brownie | cluricaune | Corrigan | dab | de-emphasize | detract from | diminish | diminutive | dole | dominate | dot | downplay | dram | dribble | driblet | dumpy | dwarfed | dwarfish | elf | elfin | fairy | fairy queen | farthing | fay | Finnbeara | fleck | flyspeck | fragment | gnome | gobbet | goblin | grain | granule | gremlin | groat | hair | handful | hob | homunculus | imp | incipient | iota | jot | kobold | leprechaun | Lilliputian | little | little bit | Mab | manikin | meager | midge | midget | miniature | minify | minikin | minim | minimize | minimum | minimus | minutiae | mite | modicum | molecule | mote | nanoid | nutshell | Oberon | ounce | ouphe | overshadow | particle | pebble | peewee | peri | pinch | pip-squeak | pittance | pixie | play down | point | pooka | puca | pwca | pygmy | rudimental | rudimentary | runt | runty | scraggy | scrubby | scruple | shrimp | shriveled | shrunk | shrunken | smidgen | smitch | speck | spoonful | spot | sprite | squat | stunted | suppress | sylph | sylphid | thimbleful | tiny bit | Titania | tittle | Tom Thumb | trifling amount | trivia | underplay | undersize | undersized | wart | wee | whit | wizened See Also | Andvari | command | dominate | faerie | faery | fairy | hypoplastic dwarf | Nibelung | normal dwarf | overlook | overtop | primordial dwarf | small person | sprite | true dwarf Dwarf In Webster's Dictionary \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; especially, a diminutive human being.
Note: During the Middle Ages dwarfs as well as fools shared
the favor of courts and the nobility.
Note: Dwarf is used adjectively in reference to anything much
below the usual or normal size; as, dwarf 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.
\Dwarf\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dwarfed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dwarfing}.] To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt. --Addison. Even the most common moral ideas and affections . . . would be stunted and dwarfed, if cut off from a spiritual background. --J. C. Shairp. \Dwarf\, v. i. To become small; to diminish in size. Strange power of the world that, the moment we enter it, our great conceptions dwarf. --Beaconsfield. |
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