Dwarf

Definition of Dwarf

n.1.An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind.
2.A diminutive human being, small in stature due to a pathological condition which causes a distortion of the proportions of body parts to each other, such as the limbs, torso, and head. A person of unusually small height who has normal body proportions is usually called a midget.
3.(Folklore) A small, usually misshapen person, typically a man, who may have magical powers; mythical dwarves were often depicted as living underground in caves.
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.
v. t.1.To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
[imp. & p. p. Dwarfed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dwarfing.]
Even the most common moral ideas and affections . . . would be stunted and dwarfed, if cut off from a spiritual background.
- J. C. Shairp.
v. i.1.To become small; to diminish in size.
Strange power of the world that, the moment we enter it, our great conceptions dwarf.
- Beaconsfield.

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