adj. Relating to or resembling an elf, especially in its tiny size or features.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Relating to elves.
n. A little elf or urchin.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. An elf; an inhabitant of fairy-land: in Spenser applied to his knights.
n. A little urchin or child.
n.Synonyms See fairy, n.
Relating or pertaining to elves.
n. An American lycænid butterfly of the genus Incisalia.
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adj. usually good-naturedly mischievous
adj. relating to or made or done by or as if by an elf
adj. small and delicate
adj. suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness
Word Usage
"They were having a glorious time and their gay voices and gayer laughter echoed up and down the valley, dying away in elfin cadences among the trees."