Probably derived from Pixy, a fairy.
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For a child's story,--imagine all sorts of wonderful playthings.
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Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Thomas More, Algernon Sidney, or some other
great man, on the eve of execution, to make reflections on his own
head,--considering and addressing it in a looking-glass.
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_March 16, 1849._--J---- ... speaking of little B. P----: "I will hug
him, so that not any storm can come to him."
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A story, the principal personage of which shall seem always on the point
of entering upon the scene, but never shall appear.
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In the "New Statistical Account of Scotland," (Vol. I.,) it is stated
that a person had observed, in his own dairy, that the milk of several
cows, when mixed together and churned, produced much less butter
proportionably than the milk of a single cow; and that the greater the
number of cows which contributed their milk, the smaller was the
comparative product. Hence, this person was accustomed to have the milk
of each cow churned separately.
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A modern magician to make the semblance of a human being, with two laths
for legs, a pumpkin for a head, etc.
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