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Elvish adj.

Pertaining to elves; implike; mischievous; weird; also, vacant; absent in demeanor. See Elfish. "He seemeth elvish by his countenance."

Mysterious; also, foolish. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Elvish'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Elvish" Quotes from Famous Books

... Collins in their insistence upon the "elvish" things in the plays; "The Tempest," "Midsummer Night's Dream," the weird sisters in "Macbeth," Ophelia's songs, the melancholy Jacques. The lines to Burke on his "Reflections on the Revolution in France," echo his celebrated dirge over ...

— A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century • Henry A. Beers

... the island of Athelney along a low long road like an interminable white string stretched across the flats, and lined with those dwarfish trees that are elvish in their very dullness. At one point of the journey (I cannot conceive why) one is arrested by a toll gate at which one has to pay threepence. Perhaps it is a distorted tradition of those dark ages. Perhaps Alfred, with ...

— Alarms and Discursions • G. K. Chesterton

... at it, and we did, but the thing was a long way off, and it was only after a number of failures, at which those elvish damsels laughed delightedly, that Jeff succeeded in bringing the whole structure to the ground. It took me still longer, and Terry, to his intense annoyance, ...

— Herland • Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman

... leave that sight. We went one on either side of Werbode, with our arms across the crupper of his horse, and hastened after the thane and his charge, who were half a mile away by this time, waiting for us. But we never heard any elvish arrow whistling after us, or saw any more ...

— A King's Comrade - A Story of Old Hereford • Charles Whistler

Words linked to "Elvish" : playful, elfish