wight

1. (archaic) A living creature, especially a human being.Examples: "O bace gongarian wight, wilt thou the ſpicket willd?"; "Oh ſay me true if thou wert mortal wight And why from us ſo quickly thou didſt take thy flight."; "But woe betide the wandering wight, / That treads its circle in the night."archaic

2. (Old Norse, Germanic paganism) A supernatural being, often used in compounds such as the land-vættr which guard the land, especially the four guardians of Iceland.GermanicOld-Norse

3. (poetic) A ghost, deity or other supernatural entity.Examples: "But I saw a glow-worm near, / Who replied: ‘What wailing wight / Calls the watchman of the night?"; "“In judging of that tempestuous wind called Euroclydon,” says an old writer—of whose works I possess the only copy extant—“it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier.”"; "Everything in their way was kicked out of place, the barrow-wight setting on with hideous eagerness; Grettir gave back before him for a long time, till at last it came to this, that he saw it would not do to hoard his strength any more; now neither spared the other, and they were brought to where the horse-bones were, and thereabout they wrestled long."poetic

4. (fantasy) A wraith-like creature.