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.

ELF-Arrows, in Natural History, a name given to the 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.