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kobold | undefined |

As a noun kobold

is kobold.

As an adjective undefined is

lacking a definition or value.

kobold

English

(wikipedia kobold)

Alternative forms

* cobold

Noun

(en noun)
  • (German mythology) An ambivalent, sometimes vindictive, spirit that is capable of materialising as an object or human, often a child; a sprite.
  • * 1904 , , page 176,
    • At this point a cock crew, and the youth jumped up hastily saying : 'Of course I shall ride with the king to the war, and if I do not return, take your violin every evening to the seashore and play on it, so that the very sea-kobolds who live at the bottom of the ocean may hear it and come to you.'
  • * 2009 , Robert Grant Haliburton, The Dwarfs of Mount Atlas: Collected Papers on the Curious Anthropology of Robert Grant Haliburton , page 75,
    • Movers, in the first chapter of his Phönizier, says that that group of deities called Dactyls, Cabiri, Corybantes, and Cyclopes, were similar to those old Germanic divinities now known as Kobolds .
  • (German folklore) A mischievous elf or goblin, or one connected (and helpful) to a family or household.
  • * '', 2000 [1980], ''The Golden Key and Other Stories , page 96,
    • The king had seen all kinds of gnomes, goblins, and kobolds at his coronation;.
  • * 1977 , James Buchanan Given, Society and Homicide in Thirteenth-Century England , 2007, page 138,
    • Among the nonhuman creatures that peopled rural Europe in the Middle Ages — the fairies, elves, dwarfs, trolls, and kobolds — there were beneficent female spirits who patronized those households that treated them well.
  • * 2011 , William Wirt Sikes, Varla Ventura, The Occult Powers of Goats and Other Welsh Tales of Goblins, Fairies, Gnomes, and Elves , unnumbered page,
    • In Germany also the kobolds are rather troublesome than otherwise, to the miners, taking pleasure in frustrating their objects, and rendering their toil unfruitful.
  • (fantasy literature) One of a diminutive and usually malevolent race of beings.
  • * 2005 , Scott Elliot Hicks, The Shattering Light of Stars , page 62,
    • There were also various trolls like great smiling badgers, brownies darting about laughing, dwarves with large gray heads, sensuous mermaids, stony kobolds , green gnomes, sirens and many elves, who were busy purifying the sacred hilltop in a mythological cooperation marvelous to the soul's perception.

    See also

    * cobalt ----

    undefined

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia undefined) (-)
  • Lacking a definition or value.
  • (mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
    • The result of division by zero is undefined .

    Antonyms

    * defined