An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

ELEVEN-HOURS, s. A luncheon, S.

ELFMILL, s. The sound made by a wood-worm, viewed by the vulgar as preternatural, S. q. "fairy-mill."

ELFSHOT, s.
1. The name vulgarly given to an arrow-head of flint, S.
Pennant.
2. Disease, supposed to be produced by the stroke of an elf-arrow, S.
Glanville.

Norv. allskaadt, Dan. elleskud; i. e. elfshot.

Elf-shot, adj. Shot by fairies, S.
Ramsay.

ELIMOSINUS, adj. Merciful.
Burel.

ELYTE, s. One elected to a bishopric.

O. Fr. elite.

Wyntown.

ELLER, s. The Alder, a tree, S.
Lightfoot.