PIXY

{ Pix″y, Pix″ie } (?), n.; pl. Pixies (#). [[For Pucksy, from Puck.]] 1. 1. An old English name for a fairy; an elf. [Written also picksy.]
2. 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. — Pixy stool (Bot.), a toadstool or mushroom.