One who, or that which, dilates, expands, o r enlarges.
1. An old English name for a fairy; an elf. [Written also picksy.] 2. (Bot.) A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring. Pixy ring, a fairy ring or circle. [Prov. Eng.] -- Pixy stool (Bot.), a toadstool o...
