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."