1. To entangle hair in so intricate a manner that it cannot be disentangled.

2. One of a class of imaginary supernatural beings of capricious temper, represented generally as of diminutive size, and as taking pleasure in playing sundry mischievous tricks on mortals, and imagined to haunt groves and other sequestered places; a mischievous person; a fairy; a diminutive person; a pet name for a child.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

• belf,
• elfs,
• glf,
• lelf,
• ehalf,
• thelf,
• relif,
• yself,
• elaf,
• elce,
• seelf,
• yielf,
• selef,
• etf,
• elp,
• reilf,
• ele,
• chelf,
• toelf,
• olf

• Elva,
• elope,
• elbe,
• self-,
• elbow,
• self,
• Elliff,
• elm,
• Eleby,
• elk,
• Elvie,
• Elvia,
• Elba.

The adjective form of the word "elf" is "elfin" or "elven".

The plural of the "elf" can be the "elves".

The singular of the "elf" can be the "elf".