Witch: Definition and part of speech

Witch

  1. n. The stormy petrel.
  2. n. A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.
  3. n. 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.
  4. n. An ugly old woman; a hag.
  5. n. 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.
  6. n. A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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