Elf-shot

adj, noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An elf arrow; elf arrows. countable, uncountable

    "In Scotland the flint arrow heads are denominated ‘elf shots,’ from a belief among the people that they are of rib human formation, but the shot with which the elves or fairies assail cattle, and there are many superstitions in connection with them."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Maliciously wounded or sickened as a result of having been shot by an elf. not-comparable

    "Without visible mark or sign she was elf-shot; and the proof of this appeared from her going off her milk, dwining away, and dying before her calves could be counted on the hooves of one foot."

  2. 2
    Of a missile, fired by an elf. not-comparable

    "There, ev'ry herd, by sad experience, knows How, wing'd with Fate, their elf-shot arrows fly, When the sick ewe her summer food foregoes, Or, stretch'd on earth, the heart-smit heifers lie."

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elf arrow

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"Without visible mark or sign she was elf-shot; and the proof of this appeared from her going off her milk, dwining away, and dying before her calves could be counted on the hooves of one foot."

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