sprite

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

sprite
    n 1: a small being, human in form, playful and having magical
         powers [syn: {fairy}, {faery}, {faerie}, {fay}, {sprite}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Sprite \Sprite\ (spr[imac]t), n. [OE. sprit, F. esprit, fr. L.
   spiritus. See {Spirit}, and cf. {Sprightly}.]
   1. A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition. See
      {Spright}.
      [1913 Webster]

            Gaping graves received the wandering, guilty sprite.
                                                  --Dryden.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. An elf; a fairy; a goblin.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. (Zool.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
      [1913 Webster] Spriteliness
      Spritefully
      Spriteful

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Sprite

   <operating system> An {operating system} from {Berkeley}
   supporting {multiprocessing} and distributed files.

   [Details?  References?]

   (1994-10-17)

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

sprite

   <graphics, file format> A small {bitmap} image, often used in
   animated games but also sometimes used as a synonym for
   {icon}.

   (1997-06-29)

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

93 Moby Thesaurus words for "sprite":
      Ariel, Befind, Corrigan, Dingbelle, Fifinella, Finnbeara, Hob,
      Hobgoblin, Mab, Masan, Oberon, Puck, Titania, apparition,
      appearance, astral, astral spirit, bad fairy, bad peri, banshee,
      brownie, cluricaune, control, departed spirit, deviling, devilkin,
      diablotin, disembodied spirit, duppy, dwarf, dybbuk, eidolon, elf,
      erlking, fairy, fairy queen, fay, form, ghost, gnome, goblin,
      grateful dead, gremlin, guide, hant, haunt, hob, idolum,
      immateriality, imp, incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity,
      kobold, larva, lemures, leprechaun, little devil, manes,
      materialization, oni, ouphe, peri, phantasm, phantasma, phantom,
      pixie, poltergeist, pooka, presence, puca, puck, pwca, revenant,
      shade, shadow, shape, shrouded spirit, specter, spectral ghost,
      spirit, spook, sylph, sylphid, theophany, tokoloshe,
      unsubstantiality, vision, walking dead man, wandering soul, wraith,
      young devil, zombie