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Elve

Elve \Elve\, n. An old form of Elf.

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elve

n. 1 (context astronomy meteorology English) 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 2 (obsolete form of elf English)

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Usage examples of "elve".

If the Empire were to become truly organized, they would certainly put down the ogrilloi and the human bandits, and kill the dragons and trolls and griffins, possibly the elves and dwarves and all the other things that make Adventuring entertaining in the first place.

Fortunately, elves fill their rooms with furniture and vases and flowers and birdcages, so we were well-concealed, although I had to peer through the leaves of a palm and Alake was eye-to-eye with a singing phurah bird.

I had lived among humans and elves, but had never seen any human magic, and I was surprised when Alake invited us.

Dobby had been killed by Ludo Bagman, the house elves of Hogwarts held their version of a funeral for him, as was the custom.

For herself she took also a light byrnie such as shield-mays among the elves were wont to use.

When an elven patrol ship gave chase, the cloaked bionoid shrike ships would close in and drop either bionoid warriors or the tertiary marauders to wipe out the elves.

If the stolen cloaking device did not hide the shrike ship from the elves, their illegal cargo would not reach Armistice and their dream of revenge would die with them.

He remembered the murmuring of the elves soon before his departure, the whispers of a dactyl demon awakened in the north.

I threw in a great deal of traditional fantasy literature, a great deal of elves and dunters and knockers and green men and such but I put it into the 20th century.

He would be included, as a gesture to his people and also because he is among the oldest of the elves living in the Edder Forest.

It is called in the Western counties Eltrot, perhaps because associated with the gambols of the elves.

And while the Elves wept, he told them how patiently she had toiled, how her fadeless love had made the dark cell bright and beautiful.

He was also fascinated by tales of the elves, but to nowhere near the degree Tomas was.

Only in Eregion, which Men called Hollin, did Elves of Noldorin race establish a lasting realm beyond the Ered Luin.

But as though these were not enough, today the Elves were confronted with something even more insidious, more damaging, perhaps more enduring: an appetite for self-delusion that seemed at times to be so innately human that Natil half wondered why it was not listed in the current textbooks as one of the attributes of psychological health.