Found 4 items, similar to Witches.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: witch
penyihir
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: witch
tukang sihir, tukang sihir wanita
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: witch
witch
v : cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone
or something [syn:
hex,
bewitch,
glamour,
enchant,
jinx]
witch
n 1: a female sorcerer or magician [syn:
enchantress]
2: a being (usually female) imagined to have special powers
derived from the devil
3: an ugly evil-looking old woman [syn:
hag,
beldam,
beldame,
crone]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Witch
Witch
\Witch\, n. [Cf.
Wick of a lamp.]
A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other
fat, and used as a taper. [Prov. Eng.]
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Witch
\Witch\, n. [OE. wicche, AS. wicce, fem., wicca, masc.;
perhaps the same word as AS. w[=i]tiga, w[=i]tga, 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. (Zo["o]l.) 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.
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