ELF

A supernatural being or spirit associated with illness, mischief, and harmful or dangerous magical influence; in later Norse sources, sometimes divided into benevolent light elves (inhabiting Álfheimr) and malevolent dark elves.Germanic

• Their Robbin-good-fellowes, Elfes, Fairies, Hobgoblins of our latter age, which idolatrous former daies and the fantasticall world of Greece ycleaped Fawnes, Satyres, Dryades & Hamadryades, did most of their merry prankes in the Night.
• Every elf, and fairy sprite, Hop as light as bird from brier.

A small, magical creature similar to a fairy, often mischievous, playful, or occasionally helpful.

• For there and ſeveral other places About mill dams and green brae faces, Both Elrich, Elfs and Brownies ſtayed, And Green gown’d Farries daunc’d and played; […]
• IN Days of Old when Arthur fill’d the Throne, Whoſe Acts and Fame to Foreign Lands were blown; The King of Elfs and little Fairy Queen Gamboll’d on Heaths, and danc’d on ev’ry Green.

A member of a race of tall, slender, graceful beings with pointed ears, typically immortal or very long-lived and possessing wisdom and magical abilities.

• Much of fairy lore clusters around the so-called fairy rings, that is, the green circles in old pastures within which the elfs were supposed to dance at night by the light of the moon.
• Fantasy elves have human shapes. They're thin. They're tall. They're beautiful. They're blond. They have pointy ears.

Ellipsis of Christmas elf.abbreviationalt-ofbroadly

• Since you’ve been out, the news arrives The Elfs’ Insurance Company’s gone.

A very diminutive person; a dwarf.obsolete

Bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).South-Africa

To twist into elflocks (of hair); to mat.archaic

• My face I'll grime with filth, blanket my loins, elf all my hairs in knots, and with presented nakedness outface the winds and persecutions of the sky.

Any small box truck or delivery truck, regardless of the actual brand.Philippines

• An elf truck fell into a ravine in the Mountain Province town of Bauko on Thursday night, killing a passenger and seriously injuring its driver.