spright

noun

1. (obsolete)Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood.

   “Well may I ween, your grief is wondrous great; / For wondrous great griefe groneth in my ſpright, / Whiles thus I heare you of your ſorrowes treat.”

   “Who comming to that ſowle-diſeaſed knight, / Could hardly him intreat, to tell his grief: / Which knowne, and all that noyd his heauie ſpright, / Well ſearcht, eftſoones he gan apply relief.”

2. (obsolete)A supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost.

   “And forth he cald out of deepe darknes dredd / Legions of Sprights, the which like litle flyes / Fluttring about his euerdamned hedd, [...]”

   “To thee, O Father, Sonne, and ſacred Spright. / One true, eternall, euerlaſting king, / To Chriſtes deere mother Marie virgin bright, / Pſalmes of thankeſgiuing and of praiſe they ſing, [...]”

3. (obsolete)A kind of short arrow.

verb

1. (obsolete)To haunt.

   “I am sprighted with a fool ; Frighted , and anger'd worse”