GNOME

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 20

A name given by the fanciful writers of the Cabalistic school to that cla of their supposed elemental spirits which inhabit the earth. Their name is more properly Gnomons; derived from the Greek yKifuuy, krunving, cunning. ( See Darvjin's Botanic Garden. ) [s. 531]