Witch
[wɪtʃ]
Definition
(noun.) a being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil.
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Definition
(n.) A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.
(n.) One who practices the black art, or magic; one regarded as possessing supernatural or magical power by compact with an evil spirit, esp. with the Devil; a sorcerer or sorceress; -- now applied chiefly or only to women, but formerly used of men as well.
(n.) An ugly old woman; a hag.
(n.) One who exercises more than common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person; also, one given to mischief; -- said especially of a woman or child.
(n.) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
(n.) The stormy petrel.
(v. t.) To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Sorceress.
v. a. Charm, enchant, fascinate, captivate, ravish, bewitch.
Typist: Ludwig
Definition
n. a woman regarded as having supernatural or magical power and knowledge through compact with the devil or some minor evil spirit: a hag crone: (coll.) a fascinating young girl: (Shak.) a wizard.—v.t. to bewitch to effect by means of witchcraft.—ns. Witch′craft the craft or practice of witches: the black art sorcery: supernatural power; Witch′-doc′tor a medicine-man; Witch′ery witchcraft: fascination; Witch′es'-broom a popular name for the broom-like tufts of branches developed on the silver-fir birch cherry &c. by means of an uredineous fungus; Witch′es'-but′ter a dark-brown fungus (see Nostoc); Witch′es'-thim′ble the sea-campion; Witch′-find′er one whose business was to detect witches.—adj. Witch′ing weird: fascinating.—adv. Witch′ingly.—ns. Witch′-knot a knot esp. in the hair tied by means of witchcraft; Witch′-meal the inflammable pollen of the club-moss.—adj. Witch′-ridd′en ridden by witches.—n. Witch′-wife a woman who practises witchcraft.
n. the common wild elm—also Witch′-hā′zel.—n. Witch′en the mountain-ash or rowan.
Typist: Tabitha
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of witches, denotes that you, with others, will seek adventures which will afford hilarious enjoyment, but it will eventually rebound to your mortification. Business will suffer prostration if witches advance upon you, home affairs may be disappointing.
Checker: Mollie
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman in wickedness a league beyond the devil.
Editor: Mamie
Examples
- Therefore, to use the expressive, if not elegant, language of a schoolgirl, He was as nervous as a witch and as cross as a bear. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The witch shall be taken out of the land, and the wickedness thereof shall be forgiven. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It is as useful to a friar as a broomstick to a witch, or a wand to a conjurer. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The most petty baron may arrest, try, and condemn a witch found within his own domain. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- And dropping a small, gilded bottle at the witch's feet, the spirit vanished. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- You're a chattering clattering broomstick witch that ought to be burnt! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Hagar, the witch, chanted an awful incantation over her kettleful of simmering toads, with weird effect. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- They burned witches instead. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Everything seemed to be thrown into the melting pot, and it seemed to Ursula they were all witches, helping the pot to bubble. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Something that niggers gets from witches. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He had as a boy been haunted by the fear of monsters and witches in which the credulous of all classes then believed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Good girls don't get treated as witches even on Egdon. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I do think _The Witches Curse, an Operatic Tragedy_ is rather a nice thing, but I'd like to try _Macbeth_, if we only had a trapdoor for Banquo. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The curtain drew up, and the stage presented the scene of the witches' cave. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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