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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dwarf \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 From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dwarf \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dwarf \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: dwarf adj : atypically small "dwarf tree"; "dwarf star" [syn: {dwarfish}] n 1: a person who is abnormally small [syn: {midget}] 2: a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure [syn: {gnome}] v : cast a shadow [syn: {shadow}, {overshadow}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Dwarf a lean or emaciated person (Lev. 21:20).
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