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ELF
A luminous spirit presiding over nature and fertility and dwelling in the world of Álfheim (Elfland). Compare angel, nymph, fairy.
(RQ:Spenser Shepheardes Calender) if theyr children at any time vvere frowarde and vvanton, they would ſay to them that the Guelfe or the Gibeline came. VVhich vvords novve from them (as many thinge els) be come into our vſage, and for Guelfes and Gibelines, we ſay Elfes & Goblins.
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
(quote-book) Iohn Danter for William Iones,(nb...)|year=1594|passage=Their Robbin-good-fellowes, Elfes, Fairies, Hobgoblins of our latter age, which idolatrous former daies and the fantasticall world of Greece ycleaped ''Fawnes'', ''Satyres'', ''Dryades & Hamadryades'', did most of their merry prankes in the Night.
(RQ:Shakespeare Midsummer)
(quote-book)|year=1649|page=16|passage=(..) I had rather have a Child which my Wife ſhould bring me, though by another man, then to have a Changeling brought me by a company of Fairies, Elfs and Goblins: (..)
(quote-book) Henry Seile,(nb...)|year=1657|page=131|passage=The quarrel ſpreading into parties, called the ''Guelfs'' and the ''Gibellines'', became at laſt the wonder and amazement of all good people: inſomuch as ſome are of opinion, that the fiction of the ''Elfs'' and ''Goblins'', wherewith we uſe to fright young children, was derived from hence.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwin,(nb...)|year=1678|page=26|passage=The opinion of Fairies and Elfs is very old, and yet ſticketh very religiously in the minds of ſome. But to root that rank opinion of Elfs out of mens hearts, the truth is, that there be no ſuch things, nor yet the ſhadows of the things, but only by a ſort of bald Friers and knaviſh ſhavelings ſo faigned; (..)
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(RQ:Dryden Fables)
(RQ:Dryden Metamorphoses)
(quote-book)the Devaſtations under the ''Goths'', ''Guelphs'', and ''Gibelines'' whence ſome would derive the Terms of ''Elfs'' (or ''Elves'') or ''Fairies'', and ''Goblins'' (or ''Hobgoblins'') or ''Spectres'', &c. (..)
(quote-book) For J. Sibbald,(nb...), by C. Stewart & Co.(nb...)|year=1802|passage=Farefolkis, ''fairies'', ''elfs'', or ''elves''; (..)
(quote-book) Richard and John Edward Taylor,(nb...), for,(nb...) the Author|year=1850|page=14|passage=These Picts are the Clan ''Alpin'', the Alps, or Elfs or Elves,—(...)
(RQ:Hawthorne Scarlet Letter)
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(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) For the Folklore Society|Folk-Lore Society by W. Satchell, Peyton and Co.,(nb...)|year=1879|page=364|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/cu31924006726552/page/n387/mode/1up|passage=Eve, Danish legend of her concealing her unwashed children, from whom come elfs, trolls, &c.
(quote-journal). By (smallcaps).(nb...)|journal=Science Monthly|Popular Science|month=May|year=1889|page=128|column=1|passage=Much of fairy lore clusters around the so-called fairy rings, that is, the green circles in old pastures within which the elfs were supposed to dance at night by the light of the moon.
(quote-book)|year=1903|page=619|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/hobsonjobsonglos00yulerich/page/619/mode/1up|column=2|passage=NAT,(nb..); a term applied to all spiritual beings, angels, elfs, demons, or what not, including the gods of the Hindus.
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Any from a race of mythical, supernatural beings resembling but seen as distinct from beings. They are usually delicate-featured and skilled in magic or spellcrafting; sometimes depicted as clashing with dwarves, especially in modern fantasy literature.
(quote-journal)|journal=Athenaeum (British magazine)|The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama|location=London|publisher=(...) John C. Francis,(nb...)|issue=2867|date=7 October 1882|page=471|column=1|passage=We may add, and our author has knowledge of the fact, that not even the Germans, those masterly delineators and ''imaginators'' of fairy-land, have shown greater or more exquisite insight into the lives and ways of elfs and fays than that which was shown by George Cruikshank.
Any of the magical, typically forest-guarding races bearing some similarities to the Norse álfar (through Tolkien's Eldar).
A very diminutive person; a dwarf.(R:Webster 191)
The bluefish ((taxfmt)).
(RQ:Shakespeare King Lear)
(cln) eleven
(l)
The number eleven, or a representation thereof.
(l) (gloss)
eleven (11)
(l), fairy
(quote-book)|publisher=Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse|line=5258|passage=Scho was so faire & so fresche · as faucon hire semed, / An elfe out of an-othire erde · or ellis an Aungell|translation=She was so fair and beautiful; her elegance seemed like / An elf out of another world, or else an angel.
(quote-book)|publisher=Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse|line=616|passage=he was takyn with an elfe / I saw it myself / when the clok stroke twelf / was he forshapyn|translation=He was taken by an elf; I saw it myself. / When the clock struck twelve, he was transfigured.
(l) (gl)
(obsolete spelling of)