witch

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A woman claiming or popularly believed to possess magical powers and practice sorcery.
2. n. A believer or follower of Wicca; a Wiccan.
3. n. A hag.
4. n. A woman considered to be spiteful or overbearing.
5. n. Informal A woman or girl considered bewitching.
6. n. 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. v. To work or cast a spell on; bewitch.
8. v. To cause, bring, or effect by witchcraft.
9. v. To use a divining rod to find underground water or minerals; dowse.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A modified and simplified form of Jacquard attachment to a loom, for a more limited range of work; a dobby or index-machine.
2. n. 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.
3. n. An old, ugly, and crabbed or malignant woman; a hag; a crone: a term of abuse.
4. n. 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.
5. n. A charm or spell.
6. n. A petrel: doubtless so called from its incessant flight, often kept up in the dark.
7. n. A water-witch.
8. n. The pole, pole-dab, or craigfluke, a kind of flatfish.
9. To bewitch; fascinate; enchant.
10. To work by charms or witchcraft; effect, cause, or bring by or as by witchcraft.
11. n. The witch-elm, Ulmus montana.

Wiktionary

1. n. archaic or dialectal A man who practises witchcraft.
2. n. A woman who is learned in and actively practices witchcraft.
3. n. derogatory An ugly or unpleasant woman.
4. n. Wicca A Wiccan.
5. v. obsolete To practise witchcraft
6. v. To bewitch
7. n. An Atlantic flatfish, Glyptocephalus cynoglossus; Torbay sole.
8. v. To dowse for water

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Prov. Eng. A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.
2. 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.
3. n. An ugly old woman; a hag.
4. n. colloq. 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. n. (Geom.) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
6. n. (Zoöl.) The stormy petrel.
7. n. 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. v. To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.

WordNet 3.0

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