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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Nymph  \Nymph\,  n.  [L.  nympha  nymph,  bride,  young  woman,  Gr  ?: 
  cf  F.  nymphe.  Cf  {Nuptial}.] 
  1.  (Class.  Myth.)  A  goddess  of  the  mountains,  forests, 
  meadows,  or  waters. 
 
  Where  were  ye  nymphs,  when  the  remorseless  deep 
  Closed  o'er  the  head  of  your  loved  Lycidas  ? 
  --Milton. 
 
  2.  Hence:  A  lovely  young  girl;  a  maiden;  a  damsel. 
 
  Nymph,  in  thy  orisons  Be  all  my  sins  remembered. 
  --Shak. 
 
  3.  (Zo["o]l.)  The  pupa  of  an  insect;  a  chrysalis. 
 
  4.  (Zo["o]l.)  Any  one  of  a  subfamily  ({Najades})  of 
  butterflies  including  the  purples,  the  fritillaries,  the 
  peacock  butterfly,  etc.;  --  called  also  {naiad}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  nymph 
  n  1:  (classical  mythology)  a  minor  nature  goddess  usually 
  depicted  as  a  beautiful  maiden;  "the  ancient  Greeks 
  believed  that  nymphs  inhabited  forests  and  bodies  of 
  water" 
  2:  a  larva  of  an  insect  with  incomplete  metamorphosis  (as  the 
  dragonfly  or  mayfly) 
  3:  a  voluptuously  beautiful  young  woman  [syn:  {houri}]




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