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Witch

noun

A female sorcerer or magician. Synonym: enchantress.

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

A believer in Wicca. Synonym: Wiccan.

An ugly evil-looking old woman. Synonyms: beldam, beldame, crone, hag.

verb

(past & past part. witched; pres. part. witching)

Cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something. Synonyms: bewitch, enchant, glamour, hex, jinx.

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"Witch" Quotes from Famous Books

... could not sleep. The wind poured in my ear Immortal names—Lear, Hamlet, Hal, Macbeth, And thro the night I heard the rushing breath Of ghost and witch and fool go whirling by. I followed them, under the phantom sphere Of the pale moon, along the Avon's near And nimbused flowing, followed to his bier— Who had evoked them first with mighty eye. And as I gazed upon the peaceful spire That points above earth's ...

— Nirvana Days • Cale Young Rice

... they now no longer fear the king, Since that the maid turned out to be a witch At Rheims, the devil aideth us no longer, And things ...

— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller

... appear and disappear at will. For the rest they have the mental and physical characteristics of the kings and queens they protect or persecute so capriciously. They can be seen by making a magic sign and looking through a witch's arm held akimbo. They are no good comates for men or women, and to meddle with a goddess or nymph or giantess was to ensure evil or death for a man. The god's loves were apparently not always so fatal, though there seems to be some tradition to that ...

— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")

... witch!" shouted Jack. "She rode in on a broomstick—she crept in through the keyhole. Where's the fire? Let's take her downstairs, ...

— Jezebel • Wilkie Collins

... there is a plain, and on the plain is a knoll, about twice the height of a one-storeyed cottage, and pointed "like a sugar-loaf." The old people remember, or have heard, that this mound was not there when they were young. It swelled up suddenly out of the grave of a witch who was buried there. ...

— Angling Sketches • Andrew Lang

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