witch Definition

one that is credited with usually malignant supernatural powers; especially : a woman practicing usually black witchcraft often with the aid of a devil or familiar : sorceress

an ugly old woman : hag

a charming or alluring girl or woman

to affect injuriously with witchcraft

to influence or beguile with allure or charm

dowse

a professional worker of magic usually in a primitive society who often works to cure sickness

any of a genus (Hamamelis of the family Hamamelidaceae, the witch-hazel family) of shrubs or small trees with slender-petaled usually yellow flowers borne in late fall or early spring; especially : one (H. virginiana) of eastern North America that blooms in the fall

an alcoholic solution of a distillate of the bark of a witch hazel (H. virginiana) used as a soothing and mildly astringent lotion

a searching out for persecution of persons accused of witchcraft

the searching out and deliberate harassment of those (such as political opponents) with unpopular views

a plane cubic curve that is symmetric about the y-axis and approaches the x-axis as an asymptote and that has the equation x2y = 4a2(2a — y)

one who dowses for water

water witch