noun. A person, especially a woman, claiming or popularly believed to possess magical powers and practice sorcery.

noun. A believer or follower of Wicca; a Wiccan.

noun. undefined

noun. An old woman considered to be ugly or frightening.

noun. A woman considered to be spiteful or overbearing.

noun. A woman or girl considered to be charming or fascinating.

noun. One particularly skilled or competent at one's craft.

intransitive verb. To work or cast a spell on; bewitch.

intransitive verb. To cause, bring, or effect by witchcraft.

intransitive verb. To use a divining rod to find underground water or minerals; dowse.

noun. A person (of either sex) given to the black art; a sorcerer; a conjurer; a wizard; later and more particularly, a woman supposed to have formed a compact with the devil or with evil spirits, and to be able by their aid to operate supernaturally; one who practises sorcery or enchantment; a sorceress.

noun. An old, ugly, and crabbed or malignant woman; a hag; a crone: a term of abuse.

noun. A fascinating woman; a woman, especially a young woman or a girl, possessed of peculiar attractions, whether of beauty or of manners; a bewitching or charming young woman or girl.

noun. A charm or spell.

noun. A petrel: doubtless so called from its incessant flight, often kept up in the dark.

noun. A water-witch.

noun. The pole, pole-dab, or craigfluke, a kind of flatfish.

To bewitch; fascinate; enchant.

To work by charms or witchcraft; effect, cause, or bring by or as by witchcraft.

noun. The witch-elm, Ulmus montana.

noun. A modified and simplified form of a Jacquard attachment to a loom, for a more limited range of work; a dobby or index-machine.

noun. A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.

transitive verb. To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.

noun. 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.

noun. An ugly old woman; a hag.

noun. 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.

noun. A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.

noun. The stormy petrel.

noun. A Wiccan; an adherent or practitioner of Wicca, a religion which in different forms may be paganistic and nature-oriented, or ditheistic. The term witch applies to both male and female adherents in this sense.

noun. a name applied to the interwoven rolling masses of the stems of herbs, which are driven by the winds over the steppes of Tartary. Cf. Tumbleweed.

noun. tufted and distorted branches of the silver fir, caused by the attack of some fungus.

noun. a name of several gelatinous cryptogamous plants, as Nostoc commune, and Exidia glandulosa. See Nostoc.

noun. a kind of grass (Panicum capillare) with minute spikelets on long, slender pedicels forming a light, open panicle.

noun. vegetable sulphur. See under Vegetable.

noun. An Atlantic flatfish, Glyptocephalus cynoglossus; Torbay sole.

verb. To dowse for water

noun. A man who practises witchcraft.

noun. A woman who is learned in and actively practices witchcraft.

noun. An ugly or unpleasant woman.

noun. A Wiccan.

verb. To practise witchcraft

verb. To bewitch

noun. a being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil

noun. a believer in Wicca

verb. cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something

noun. an ugly evil-looking old woman

noun. a female sorcerer or magician