D defs.my
Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Sylph

/sĭlf/ · IPA /sɪlf/
01 n. An imaginary being inhabiting the air; a fairy.
  1. 1.
    An imaginary being inhabiting the air; a fairy.
  2. 2.
    Fig.: A slender, graceful woman.
  3. 3.
    Any one of several species of very brilliant South American humming birds, having a very long and deeply-forked tail; as, the blue-tailed sylph (Cynanthus cyanurus).(Zool.)