WITCH

witch

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

enchantress, witch

(noun) a female sorcerer or magician

hag, beldam, beldame, witch, crone

(noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman

Wiccan, witch

(noun) a believer in Wicca

hex, bewitch, glamour, witch, enchant, jinx

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

witch (plural witches)

A person who practices witchcraft; a woman or (now, uncommon) man who practices witchcraft.

(now usually particularly) A woman who is learned in and actively practices witchcraft.

(derogatory) An ugly or unpleasant woman.

One who exercises more-than-common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person.

One given to mischief, especially a woman or child.

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

The stormy petrel.

Any of a number of flatfish

Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (Torbay sole), found in the North Atlantic.

Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis (megrim), found in the North Atlantic.

Arnoglossus scapha, found near New Zealand.

The Indomalayan butterfly Araotes lapithis, of the family Lycaenidae.

Synonyms

• (person who uses magic): See Thesaurus:magician

• (female magic user): wizardess, sorceress

• (male magic user): wizard, sorcerer, warlock

• (an ugly or unpleasant woman): See Thesaurus:old woman

Verb

witch (third-person singular simple present witches, present participle witching, simple past and past participle witched)

(obsolete, intransitive) To practise witchcraft.

(obsolete, transitive) To bewitch.

(intransitive) To dowse for water.

Etymology 2

Noun

witch (plural witches)

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

Source: Wiktionary

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Witch, n. Etym: [Cf. Wick of a lamp.]

Definition: A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper. [Prov. Eng.]

Witch, n. Etym: [OE. wicche, AS. wicce, fem., wicca, masc.; perhaps the same word as AS. witiga, witga, a soothsayer (cf. Wiseacre); cf. Fries. wikke, a witch, LG. wikken to predict, Icel. vitki a wizard, vitka to bewitch.]

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. There was a man in that city whose name was Simon, a witch. Wyclif (Acts viii. 9). He can not abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears she's a witch. Shak.

2. An ugly old woman; a hag. Shak.

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.]

4. (Geom.)

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

5. (Zoöl.)

Definition: The stormy petrel. 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.

Witch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Witched; p. pr. & vb. n. Witching.] Etym: [AS. wiccian.]

Definition: To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant. [I 'll] witch sweet ladies with my words and looks. Shak. Whether within us or without The spell of this illusion be That witches us to hear and see. Lowell.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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