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Definition of "wood-spirits" [wood-spirits]

  • Same as spiritine. Not to be confounded with ‘wood-spirit’ or methyl alcohol. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "wood-spirits" in a sentence
  • "Presumably both have magnets which would be affected while Justine's trippy, electric hand-trails are perhaps more evidence of Von Trier's recent episode in pharmacopoeia, perhaps while watching the wood-spirits in Avatar?"
  • "They were talking to each other loudly as if to keep lurking wood-spirits at bay, and I did vividly remember that teenage spooky feeling of being alone in wild woodland and at the mercy of supernatural eyes."
  • "Night, with torches and lanterns, and make a great noise with horns, bells, whips, &c., in order to | 342 | frighten away two wood-spirits."