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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
witch \witch\, n. oe. wicche, as. wicce, fem., wicca, masc.;
perhaps the same word as as. wimactiga, wimactga, a
soothsayer cf. wiseacre; cf. fries. wikke, a witch, lg.
wikken to predict, icel. vitki a wizard, vitka to bewitch.
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1. 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.
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there was a man in that city whose name was simon, a
witch. --wyclif acts
viii. 9.
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he can not abide the old woman of brentford; he
swears she's a witch. --shak.
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2. an ugly old woman; a hag. --shak.
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3. 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.
colloq.
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4. geom. a certain curve of the third order, described by
maria agnesi under the name versiera.
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5. zool. the stormy petrel.
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6. 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.
pjc
witch balls, 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.
--maunder treas. of bot.
witches' besoms bot., tufted and distorted branches of
the silver fir, caused by the attack of some fungus.
--maunder treas. of bot.
witches' butter bot., a name of several gelatinous
cryptogamous plants, as nostoc commune, and exidia
glandulosa. see nostoc.
witch grass bot., a kind of grass panicum capillare
with minute spikelets on long, slender pedicels forming a
light, open panicle.
witch meal bot., vegetable sulphur. see under
vegetable.
1913 webster
see also:
wiseacre versiera wicca witch balls tumbleweed witches' besoms
witches' butter nostoc commune exidia glandulosa nostoc witch grass
panicum capillare witch meal vegetable
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