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lls and wild places, and generally represented as delighting in mischievous tricks. Every elf, and fairy sprite, Hop as light as bird from brier. Shak.

A little elf or urchin. Shenstone.

Of or relating to the elves; elflike; implike; weird; scarcely human; mischievous, as though caused by elves. "Elfish light." Coleridge. The elfish intelligence that was so familiar an expression on her small physiognomy. Hawthorne.

In an elfish manner.

The quality of being elfish.

A little elf.

Fairyland. Tennyson.

Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves.

, to rely for authority. [Obs.] Authorizing himself, for the most part, upon other histories. Sir P. Sidney.

A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.

A shelf to hold books.

A mine; a quarry; a pit dug; a ditch. [Written also delft, and delve.] [Obs.] The delfts would be so flown with waters, that no gins or machines could . . . keep them dry. Ray.

Same as Delftware.

Pottery made at the city of Delft in Holland; hence:

A brood of eels. [Prov. Eng.]

Having the form of a funnel, or tunnel; that is, expanding gradually from the bottom upward, as the corolla of some flowers; infundibuliform.

One of a faction in Germany and Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which supported the House of Guelph and the pope, and opposed the Ghibellines, or faction of the German emperors.

Of or pertaining to the family or the facttion of the Guelphs.

Themselves; -- used reflexively. [Obs.] Chaucer.

zed form of the third person feminine pronoun; -- used as a subject with she; as, she herself will bear the blame; also used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is herself; she blames herself.