Lexicographical Neighbors of Elfing
Literary usage of Elfing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"(n) Thi« was founded by William elfing mercer in 1329 (on the fite of a decayed
nunnery), for the fup-» port of loo blind men. He afterwards changed it into ..."
2. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness (1913)
"Thus Edgar talks of "•elfing all his hair in Knots' [Knt.] Lodge in his Wits'
Miserie, 1599, describing a devil whom he names Drawling - Contention, ..."
3. Experimental Morphology by Charles Benedict Davenport (1899)
"... note, elfing should read ELFVING. 21, last sentence in next to last paragraph,
should read: " On this account even neutral nitrites kill such plants as ..."