elvish : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: elvish	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for elvish
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
elvish adj usually good-naturedly mischievous; "perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight"; "elvish tricks" Synonym(s): elfin, elfish, elvish
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Elves \Elves\, n.; pl. of {Elf}. Elvish \Elv"ish\, a. 1. Pertaining to elves; implike; mischievous; weird; also, vacant; absent in demeanor. See {Elfish}. He seemeth elvish by his countenance. --Chaucer. 2. Mysterious; also, foolish. [Obs.]
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
elvish n. 1. The Tengwar of Feanor, a table of letterforms resembling the beautiful Celtic half-uncial hand of the "Book of Kells". Invented and described by J. R. R. Tolkien in "The Lord of The Rings" as an orthography for his fictional `elvish' languages, this system (which is both visually and phonetically {elegant}) has long fascinated hackers (who tend to be intrigued by artificial languages in general). It is traditional for graphics printers, plotters, window systems, and the like to support a Feanorian typeface as one of their demo items. See also {elder days}. 2. By extension, any odd or unreadable typeface produced by a graphics device. 3. The typeface mundanely called `Bo"cklin', an art-Noveau display font.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
elvish 1. The Tengwar of Feanor, a table of letterforms resembling the beautiful Celtic half-uncial hand of the "Book of Kells". Invented and described by J.R.R. Tolkien in "The Lord of The Rings" as an orthography for his fictional "elvish" languages, this system (which is both visually and phonetically {elegant}) has long fascinated hackers (who tend to be intrigued by artificial languages in general). It is traditional for graphics printers, plotters, window systems, and the like to support a Feanorian typeface as one of their demo items. By extension, the term might be used for any odd or unreadable typeface produced by a graphics device. 2. The typeface mundanely called "B"ocklin", an art-decoish {display font}. [Why?] [{Jargon File}] (1998-04-28)