1. A woman claiming or popularly believed to possess magical powers and practice sorcery.
2. A believer or follower of wicca; a Wiccan.
3. A hag.
4. A woman considered to be spiteful or overbearing.
5. informal A woman or girl considered bewitching.
6. one particularly skilled or competent at one's craft: "A witch of a writer, [she] is capable of developing an intensity that verges on ferocity” ( peter S. prescott).
7. to work or cast a spell on; bewitch.
8. to cause, bring, or effect by witchcraft.
9. to use a divining rod to find underground water or minerals; dowse.

1. A man who practises witchcraft.
2. A woman who is learned in and actively practices witchcraft.
3. an ugly or unpleasant woman.
4. A Wiccan.
5. to practise witchcraft
6. to bewitch
7. an atlantic flatfish, Glyptocephalus cynoglossus; Torbay sole.
8. to dowse for water

1. A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.
2. 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.
3. an ugly old woman; a hag.
4. 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.
5. A certain curve of the third order, described by maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
6. the stormy petrel.
7. 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.
8. to bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.

1. to bewitch; fascinate; enchant.
2. to work by charms or witchcraft; effect, cause, or bring by or as by witchcraft.
3. A modified and simplified form of a jacquard attachment to a loom, for a more limited range of work; a dobby or index-machine.
4. A person (of either sex) given to the black art; a sorcerer; a conjurer; a wizard; later and more particularly, a woman supposed to have formed a compact with the devil or with evil spirits, and to be able by their aid to operate supernaturally; one who practises sorcery or enchantment; a sorceress.
5. an old, ugly, and crabbed or malignant woman; a hag; a crone: a term of abuse.
6. A fascinating woman; a woman, especially a young woman or a girl, possessed of peculiar attractions, whether of beauty or of manners; a bewitching or charming young woman or girl.
7. A charm or spell.
8. A petrel: doubtless so called from its incessant flight, often kept up in the dark.
9. A water-witch.
10. the pole, pole-dab, or craigfluke, a kind of flatfish.
11. the witch-elm, Ulmus montana.

1. a being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil
2. a believer in wicca
3. cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something
4. an ugly evil-looking old woman
5. a female sorcerer or magician