Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An extremely dim, short-lived, expanding disk of reddish light found above thunderstorms and believed to be created by electromagnetic pulses from intense lightning.
Wiktionary
- n. 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
- n. Obsolete form of elf.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An old form of Elf.
Etymologies
- e(mission of) l(ight and) v(ery low-frequency perturbations from) e(lectromagnetic pulse sources). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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”
“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.”
“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
“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
“D elve into ribs and salmon at the annual Johnson Farm Museum Salmon Bake & Rib BBQ this weekend.”
“Read more elve - great piece of info, wish there were any pictures of it ...”
“But this objection, if well grounded, lies against not only one, but twelve apostles; not only against tw elve apostles, but against more i\\?”
“Oeeske¿e Deens. "vemeCeb ≥ eele efke¿leer Lees [b Deblej Demeleb! meie» ≥ eebveer Ske¿e megjele cnÏ} b, ílegceÆ ≥ ee nelemetve peeleerle eflelekes¿ Hej ≥ elve ©iCe efJe fi eebleer Iesle nesles.”
“during the tv/elve months preceding the first day of De - cember in said year" and inserting in place thereof the words: — for the fiscal year ending on the previous June thirtieth, — so as to read as follows: — Section 5.”
Internet Archive: Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
“To fee how we behave our (elve* one would think we had got Letters oflnftu ranee for our Salvation, that God himfclf had revealed to us, that the Devils ftvould”
Internet Archive: Moral Essays: Contain'd in Several Treatises on Many Important Duties
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