undine
uhn deen
- n any of various female water spirits
- He makes a muskrat's ear quite as eloquent as unearthly tresses of an undine, rather badly jointed wooden doll is as truly alive to him as the most grizzled of grey old men who .
- In 1896, wrote Shaw (whom serious Beatrice Webb regarded as "a sprite"a sort of undine with only a slender connection with the world of mortals): "The Fabian old gang can .
- She plays with an easy and spontaneous grace, and she looks, in her moments of limp asthenic loveliness, like an undine sighing in the Seine.