Elf

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  • noun. A small, often mischievous creature considered to have magical powers.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A lively, mischievous child.
  • noun. A usually sprightly or mischievous or sometimes spiteful person.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To entangle intricately, as the hair.
  • noun. An imaginary being superstitiously supposed to inhabit unfrequented places, and in various ways to affect mankind; a sprite; a fairy; a goblin.
  • noun. A mischievous or wicked person; a knave; a rogue.
  • noun. A diminutive person; a dwarf; hence, a pet name for a child, especially one who is very sprightly and graceful.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An imaginary supernatural being, commonly a little sprite, much like a fairy; a mythological diminutive spirit, supposed to haunt hills and wild places, and generally represented as delighting in mischievous tricks.
  • noun. A very diminutive person; a dwarf.
  • noun. a flint arrowhead; -- so called by the English rural folk who often find these objects of prehistoric make in the fields and formerly attributed them to fairies; -- called also elf bolt, elf dart, and elf shot.
  • noun. a child supposed to be left by elves, in room of one they had stolen. See Changeling.
  • noun. the ignis fatuus.
  • noun. a small owl (Micrathene Whitneyi) of Southern California and Arizona.
  • transitive verb. To entangle mischievously, as an elf might do.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A mythical, supernatural being resembling but seen as distinct from humans.
  • noun. A luminous spirit presiding over nature and fertility and dwelling in the world of Álfheim (Elfland). Compare angel, nymph, fairy.
  • noun. Any of the magical, humanoid, typically forest-guarding races bearing some similarities to the Norse álfar (through Tolkien's Eldar).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
  • noun. below 3 kilohertz
  • Word Usage
    "My books have almost none of that, and the term elf is never used though Tolkein's elves are probably close to my high court sidhe in appeance but where I always felt the elves in his world would never want to get dirty enough to have really good, squealchy sex, my sidhe are very sensual and very sexual beings."
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    brownie  dwarf  fairy  fay  hobbit  
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    Himself  delph  herself  himself  hisself  
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    barbarian  creature  demon  dragon  drow  
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