Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An extremely dim, short-lived, expanding disk of reddish light found above thunderstorms and believed to be created by electromagnetic pulses from intense lightning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An old form of Elf.
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- noun astronomy, meteorology an upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, rapidly expanding disk-shaped regions of luminosity, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, which occur high above energetic cloud-to-ground lightning of positive or negative polarity
- noun Obsolete form of
elf .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Bekel, Steep Nemorn, elve hundred and therety and to years how the krow flees end in deed, after a power of skimiskes, blodidens and godinats of them, when we sight the beasts, (heg-heg whatlk of wraimy wetter!), moist moonful date man aver held dimsdzey death with, and higheye was in the Reilly Oirish
Finnegans Wake 2006
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I don't mean Tolkien's pastiches of Breton lais in his elve-songs, which seem rather insipid, but his recreation of Anglo-Saxon verse, which is magnificent: the lament for Théoden Kin (Return, p. 124), "We heard of the horns in the hills ringing," is a small masterpiece.
Hobbit-Forming Harrison, Craig 1967
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The term _Brownie_, or swarthy elve, suggests a connection between them and the _Gwylliaid Cochion_, or Red Fairies of Wales.
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen
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"Invert the tables, you misbegotten son of an elve," replied Fenton;
The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831
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D elve into ribs and salmon at the annual Johnson Farm Museum Salmon Bake & Rib BBQ this weekend.
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Read more elve - great piece of info, wish there were any pictures of it ...
WAVY TV 2008
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Read more elve - great piece of info, wish there were any pictures of it ...
Dark Roasted Blend 2008
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Read more elve - great piece of info, wish there were any pictures of it ...
Dark Roasted Blend 2008
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Read more elve - great piece of info, wish there were any pictures of it ...
WAVY TV 2008
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Read more elve - great piece of info, wish there were any pictures of it ...
WAVY TV 2008
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