Dwarf /(?)/

Dwarf

n.

pl. Dwarfs

  1. An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind.
  2. A diminutive human being, small in stature due to a pathological condition which causes a distortion of the proportions of body parts to each other, such as the limbs, torso, and head. A person of unusually small height who has normal body proportions is usually called a midget.
  3. A small, usually misshapen person, typically a man, who may have magical powers; mythical dwarves were often depicted as living underground in caves. (Folklore)

Phrases & Compounds
Dwarf elder
danewort.
Dwarf wall
a low wall, not as high as the story of a building, often used as a garden wall or fence.

Dwarf

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Dwarfed; p. pr. & vb. n. Dwarfing

  1. To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
    Even the most common moral ideas and affections . . . would be stunted and dwarfed, if cut off from a spiritual background.
    — J. C. Shairp.

Dwarf

v. i.
  1. To become small; to diminish in size.
    Strange power of the world that, the moment we enter it, our great conceptions dwarf.