elf-shot adjective 2noun 1forms 1 adjective2 •Maliciously wounded or sickened as a result of having been shot by an elf.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. — 1897 •Of a missile, fired by an elf.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. — 1789 noun1 •An elf arrow; elf arrows.Frequently this practitioner would keep a stock of elf-shot from which one would be produced by sleight of hand from the ailing animal's flank as evidence that it had indeed been elf-shot. — 1976 formself-shots
