wight
(archaic) A living creature, especially a human being.
But woe betide the wandering wight, / That treads its circle in the night.
(paganism) A being of one of the Nine Worlds of Heathen belief, especially a nature spirit, elf or ancestor.
(poetic) A ghost, deity or other supernatural entity.
“In judging of that tempestuous wind called Euroclydon,” says an old writer—of whose works I possess the only copy extant—“it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier.”
(fantasy) A wraith-like creature.
(archaic, except in dialects) Brave, valorous, strong.
(UK dialectal, obsolete) Strong; stout; active.
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