elf : Idioms & Phrases

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Elf arrow

  • 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.
Webster 1913

Elf child

  • a child supposed to be left by elves, in room of one they had stolen. See Changeling.
Webster 1913

elf cup

  • noun apothecium of a fungus of the family Pezizaceae
WordNet

Elf fire

  • the ignis fatuus. Brewer.
Webster 1913

Elf owl

  • (Zoöl.), a small owl (Micrathene Whitneyi) of Southern California and Arizona.
Webster 1913