witch:1
nounbefore 12th century{ds||1|a|}
- a person (especially a woman) who is credited with having usually malignant supernatural powers
- a woman who is believed to practice usually black magic often with the aid of a devil or familiar : sorceress
- a practitioner of witchcraft especially in adherence with a neo-pagan tradition or religion (such as Wicca)
witch:2
verb
witch
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14th century{ds|t|1||}
- to affect injuriously with witchcraft
- to influence or beguile with allure or charm
- dowse
witch doctor
noun
witch doctor
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1718
- a professional worker of magic usually in a primitive society who often works to cure sickness
witch hazel
noun1737{ds||1||}
- any of a genus (Hamamelis of the family Hamamelidaceae, the witch-hazel family) of shrubs or small trees with slender-petaled usually yellow flowers borne in late fall or early spring; especially : one (H. virginiana) of eastern North America that blooms in the fall
- an alcoholic solution of a distillate of the bark of a witch hazel (H. virginiana) used as a soothing and mildly astringent lotion
witch hunt
noun
witch hunt
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1853{ds||1||}
- a searching out for persecution of persons accused of witchcraft
- the searching out and deliberate harassment of those (such as political opponents) with unpopular views
witch of Agnesi
noun phrase1875
- a plane cubic curve that is symmetric about the y-axis and approaches the x-axis as an asymptote and that has the equation x2y = 4a2(2a — y)
water witch
noun
water witch
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1817
- one who dowses for water
water witcher
noun1917
- water witch
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