"elfwise" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From elf + -wise.",
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      "form": "more elfwise",
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  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1873, Edgar Fawcett, Purple and Fine Linen: A Novel, New York: G.W. Carleton and Co., page 464:",
          "text": "A terrible little haunting Perhaps had perched itself on his shoulder elfwise, very possibly, and was whispering its little trenchant probabilities in his ear.",
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          "ref": "1948, Robert W. Krepps, The Field of Night, New York: Rinehart and Co., page 15:",
          "text": "[A]lthough the ear which Ryk could see was pointed, elfwise, it was still a delicately patrician ear.",
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        "In the manner of an elf."
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