Pixie and Fay

noun

• Folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
  • synonyms: elf, hob, gremlin, pixy, brownie, imp
• Creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas.
  • synonyms: pyxie, pixy, Pyxidanthera barbulata

• (n.) A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring.
• (n.) An old English name for a fairy; an elf.

noun

• A small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers.
  • synonyms: fairy, faery, faerie, sprite

• (v.i.) To lie close together; to fit; to fadge; -- often with in, into, with or together.
• (n.) Faith; as, by my fay.
• (n.) A fairy; an elf.
• (v.t.) To fit; to join; to unite closely, as two pieces of wood, so as to make the surface fit together.

• Irish: Raven
• French: Fairy or Elf
• French, English: Fairy Variant of Faith. Confidence; trust; belief
• English: Derived from Middle English faie meaning "fairy"