witch

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   A person (now usually particularly a woman) who uses magical or supernatural powers to influence or predict events, particularly one with malicious motives.

   • He cannot abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears she's a witch.
   • It was easy to understand that they were witches, who had turned themselves into ravens.
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   A person (now usually particularly a woman) who uses magical or supernatural powers to influence or predict events, particularly one with malicious motives.; A person of any gender who harmfully employs magical power (especially innate rather than ritual)

   • […] premise (1) might be understood to mean not that witchcraft-substance in a man [woman] is invariably passed to his sons [her daughters], but that that is the invariable channel through which the trait is acquired; that is, more explicit
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   A person who follows Wicca or similar New Age pagan beliefs.

   • To be considered a Witch of a particular tradition you will have to be initiated into that tradition by someone else within that tradition, after following their specific program of study.
   • For many neopagan witch traditions the moon is seen as both a symbol of the Goddess and of the witch's power, symbolically, and the belief is that the full moon is the best time for all acts of magic.
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   An ugly or unpleasant woman.derogatoryfiguratively

   • I hate that old witch.
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   One who exercises more-than-common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person.

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   One given to mischief, especially a woman or child.

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   A witch of Agnesi (cubic plane curve)

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   A storm petrel.

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   Any of a number of flatfish of species:; Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (witch flounder or Torbay sole), found in the North Atlantic.

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    Any of a number of flatfish of species:; Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis (megrim), found in the North Atlantic.

syn. magician · ugly woman · shrew

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   To dowse for water.intransitive

   • And I told him there's a vein down there, I know 'caus I used to—uh, I went out here and witched one for this house, at the corner.
   • Nothing would make him shut up until I brought my dogwood stick into his office and witched for water.

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   To practise witchcraft.intransitiveobsolete

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   To bewitch.transitive

   • She has witched the Queen's womb long ago, and witched the whole harvest.
   • “Maybe the Mormonhater witched him. There's lot of stories being told around about that old man.” “Them's lies,” denied South Boy hotly. “He may have scared Havek, but he never witched him.”

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

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   A bitch.euphemistic