Chapter Fair-star to Fairy Rings of F by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

sea-spirit, the upper part a woman and the lower half a fish.
   MERROWS, both male and female, are spirits of the sea, of human shape from the waist upwards, but from the waist downwards are like a fish. The females are attractive, but the males have green teeth, green hair, pig's eyes, and red noses. Fishermen dread to meet them.
   MONACIELLO or LITTLE MONK, a house-spirit of Naples.
   NAIAD (plu. NAIADES [3 syl.] or NAIADS [2 syl.]), water-nymphs. (Latin.) (See Naiads.)
   NIS or NISSE (2 syl.), a Kobold or Brownie. A Scandinavian fairy friendly to farmhouses. (Contraction of Nicolaus.)
   NIX (female, NIXIE), a water-spirit. The nix has green teeth, and wears a green hat; the nixie is very beautiful.
   OBERON, king of the fairies.
   OGRE [pronounce og'r], an inhabitant of fairyland said to feed on infant children. (French.)
   OREADS, mountain nymphs. (Greek, oros.)
   OUPHE (2 syl.), a fairy or goblin.
   PERI, a Persian fairy. Evil peris are called "Deevs."
   PIGWIDGEON, a fairy of very diminutive size.
   PIXY or PIXIE (also pisgy, pisgie), a Devonshire fairy, same as Puck.
   POUKE (1 syl.), same as Puck. (See Pouke.)
   PUCK, a merry little fairy spirit, full of fun and harmless mischief. (Icelandic and Swedish, puke.) (See Puck.)
   ROBIN- GOODFELLOW, another name for PUCK. (See Robin ...)
   SALAMANDER, a spirit which lives in fire. (Latin and Greek, salamandra.) (See Salamandra.)
   SHADES, ghosts.
   SPECTRE, a ghost,
   SPOOK (in Theosophy), an elemental.
   SPRITE, a spirit.
   STROMKARL, a Norwegian musical spirit, like Neck. (See Stromkarl.)
   SYLPH, a spirit of the air; so named by the Rosicrucians and Cabalists. (Greek, silphe, French, sylphide.) (See Sylphs.)
   TRITON, a sea deity, who dwells with Father Neptune in a golden palace at the bottom of the sea. The chief employment of tritons is to blow a conch to smooth the sea when it is ruffled.
   TROLL, a hill-spirit. Hence Trolls are called Hill-people or Hill-folk, supposed to be immensely rich, and especially dislike noise. (See Trolls.)
   UNDINE (2 syl.), a water-nymph. (Latin, unda.) (See Undine.)
   URCHIN properly means a hedgehog, and is applied to mischievous children and small folk generally. (See Urchin.)
   VAMPIRE (2 syl.), the spirit of a dead man that haunts a house and sucks the blood of the living. A Hungarian superstition. (See Vampire.)
   WERE-WOLF (Anglo-Saxon, wer-wulf, man-wolf), a human being, sometimes in one form and sometimes in another. (See WereWolf.)
   WHITE LADIES OF NORMANDY. (See White Ladies.)
   WHITE LADY (The) of the royal family of Prussia. A "spirit" said to appear before the death of one of the family. (See White Lady.)
   WHITE LADY OF AVENEL (2 syl.), a tutelary spirit.
   WHITE LADY OF IRELAND (The), the banshee or domestic spirit of a family.)
   WHITE MERLE (The), of the old Basques. A white fairy bird, which, by its singing, restored sight to the blind.
   WIGHT, any human creature, as a "Highland wight." Dwarfs and all other fairy creatures.
   WILL-O'-THE-WISP, a spirit of the bogs, whose delight is to mislead belated travellers.
   WRAITH (Scotch), the ghost of a person shortly about to die or just dead, which appears to survivors, sometimes at a great distance off. (See Wraith, Household Spirits.)

Fairies are the dispossessed spirits which once inhabited human bodies, but are not yet meet to dwell with the "saints in light."

"All those airy shapes you now behold
Were human bodies once, and clothed with earthly mould;
Our souls, not yet prepared for upper light,
Till doomsday wander in the shades of night."
Dryden: The Flower and the Leaf.

Fairing (A). A present from a fair. The ing is a patronymic = a descendant of, come from, belonging to.

"Fairings come thus plentifully in."
Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost, v. 2.

Fairlimb The sister of Bitelas and daughter of Rukenaw, the ape; in the tale of Reynard the Fox.

Fairservice (Andrew). A shrewd Scotch gardener at Osbaldistone Hall. (Sir Walter Scott: Rob Roy.)

Fairy of nursery mythology is the personification of Providence. The good ones are called fairies, elves, elle-folks, and fays; the evil ones are urchins, ouphes, ell-maids, and ell-women.

"Fairies, black, grey, green, and white,
You moonshine revellers, and shades of night,
You ouphen-heirs of fixed destiny,
Attend your office."
Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, v. 5.

   The dress of the fairies. They wear a red conical cap; a mantle of green cloth, inlaid with wild flowers; green pantaloons, buttoned with bobs of silk; and silver shoon. They carry quivers of adder-slough, and bows made of the ribs of a man buried where "three lairds' lands meet;" their arrows are made of bog-reed, tipped with white flints,