ELF, a term now almost obsolete, formerly used to denote a fairy or hobgoblin; an imaginary being, the creature of ignorance, superstition, and craft. See Fairy.
Elv-Arrows, in natural history, a name given to the flints.
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flints anciently fashioned into arrow-heads, and still found fossil in Scotland, America, and several other parts of the world: they are believed by the vulgar to be shot by fairies, and that cattle are sometimes killed by them.