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CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
DEVIL DICTIONARY
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witch

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Noun, Verb (transitive)

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun witch has 4 senses

Verb witch has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

witchn. [Cf. Wick of a lamp.].
     A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.  [1913 Webster]
witchn. [OE. wicche, AS. wicce, fem., wicca, masc.; perhaps the same word as AS. wītiga, wītga, a soothsayer (cf. Wiseacre); cf. Fries. wikke, a witch, LG. wikken to predict, Icel. vitki a wizard, vitka to bewitch.].
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
    "There was a man in that city whose name was Simon, a witch."  [1913 Webster]
    "He can not abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears she's a witch."  [1913 Webster]
  •  An ugly old woman; a hag.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The stormy petrel.  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [PJC]
Witch balls, a name applied to the interwoven rolling masses of the stems of herbs, which are driven by the winds over the steppes of Tartary. Cf. Tumbleweed. Maunder (Treas. of Bot.) -- Witches' besoms (Bot.), tufted and distorted branches of the silver fir, caused by the attack of some fungus. Maunder (Treas. of Bot.) -- Witches' butter (Bot.), a name of several gelatinous cryptogamous plants, as Nostoc commune, and Exidia glandulosa. See Nostoc. -- Witch grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Panicum capillare) with minute spikelets on long, slender pedicels forming a light, open panicle. -- Witch meal (Bot.), vegetable sulphur. See under Vegetable.
witchv. t. [AS. wiccian.].
     To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.  [1913 Webster]
    "[I 'll] witch sweet ladies with my words and looks."  [1913 Webster]
    "Whether within us or without
    The spell of this illusion be
    That witches us to hear and see.
    "  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

witch, n. & v.
--n.
1 a sorceress, esp. a woman supposed to have dealings with the devil or evil spirits.
2 an ugly old woman; a hag.
3 a fascinating girl or woman.
4 a flat-fish, Pleuronectes cynoglossus, resembling the lemon sole.
--v.tr. archaic 1 bewitch.
2 fascinate, charm, lure.

Idiom
witch-doctor a tribal magician of primitive people. witches' sabbath see SABBATH 3. witch-hunt
1 hist. a search for and persecution of supposed witches.
2 a campaign directed against a particular group of those holding unpopular or unorthodox views, esp. communists. the witching hour midnight, when witches are supposedly active (after Shakesp. Hamlet III. ii. 377 the witching time of night).
Derivative
witching adj. witchlike adj.
Etymology
OE wicca (masc.), wicce (fem.), rel. to wiccian (v.) practise magic arts

DEVIL DICTIONARY

witch

n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.

THESAURUS

witch

Jezebel, Mafioso, Weird Sisters, Young Turk, baboon, bag, bat, battle-ax, beast, becharm, bedevil, beguile, beldam, berserk, berserker, bewitch, biddy, bitch, bitch-kitty, blemish, blot, bomber, brute, captivate, carry away, cast a spell, cat, charm, common scold, coven, crone, dame, demon, demonize, devil, diabolize, dog, dowager, drab, dragon, enchant, enchantress, enrapture, enravish, enthrall, entrance, eyesore, fascinate, fiend, fire-eater, firebrand, fishwife, fright, frump, fury, gargoyle, goon, gorilla, grandam, grandmother, granny, grimalkin, gunsel, hag, hardnose, harridan, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhag, hellhound, hellion, hex, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hoodoo, hothead, hotspur, hypnotize, incendiary, infatuate, intrigue, jinx, killer, lamia, mad dog, madcap, mesmerize, mess, monster, monstrosity, mugger, no beauty, obsess, old battle-ax, old dame, old girl, old granny, old lady, old trot, old wife, old woman, overlook, possess, rapist, revolutionary, savage, scarecrow, scold, shamaness, she-devil, she-wolf, shrew, sight, siren, sorceress, spell, spellbind, spitfire, teratism, termagant, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, tough, tough guy, transport, trot, ugly customer, ugly duckling, vamp, violent, virago, vixen, voodoo, war-horse, wild beast, wildcat, witchwife, witchwoman, wolf

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Ugliness

N ugliness, deformity, inelegance, acomia, disfigurement, want of symmetry, inconcinnity, distortion, squalor, forbidding countenance, vinegar aspect, hanging look, wry face, spretae injuria formae, eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight, fright, monster, dog, woofer, pig, octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan, satyr, toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop, monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen adempt, ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey, plain, bald (unadorned), homely, ordinary, unornamental, inartistic, unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely, unshapely, sightless, seemless, not fit to be seen, unbeauteous, unbeautiful, beautiless, semibeautiful, shapeless, misshapen, misproportioned, monstrous, gaunt, dumpy, curtailed of its fair proportions, ill-made, ill- shaped, ill-proportioned, crooked, hard featured, hard visaged, ill-favored, hard-favored, evil-favored, ill-looking, unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing, graceless, inelegant, ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff, rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety, gawky, lumping, lumpish, lumbering, hulky, hulking, unwieldy, squalid, haggard, grim, grim faced, grim visaged, grisly, ghastly, ghost like, death like, cadaverous, grewsome, gruesome, frightful, hideous, odious, uncanny, forbidding, repellant, repulsive, repugnant, grotesque, bizarre, grody, grody to the max, horrid, horrible, shocking, foul, dingy, gaudy, disfigured, discolored.

Sorcerer

N sorcerer, magician, thaumaturgist, theurgist, conjuror, necromancer, seer, wizard, witch, hoodoo, voodoo, fairy, lamia, hag, warlock, charmer, exorcist, mage, cunning man, medicine man, Shaman, figure flinger, ecstatica, medium, clairvoyant, fortune teller, mesmerist, deus ex machina, soothsayer, Katerfelto, Cagliostro, Mesmer, Rosicrucian, Circe, siren, weird sisters.

Oracle

N oracle, prophet, prophesier, seer, soothsayer, augur, fortune teller, crystal gazer, witch, geomancer, aruspex, aruspice, haruspice, haruspex, astrologer, star gazer, Sibyl, Python, Pythoness, Pythia, Pythian oracle, Delphian oracle, Monitor, Sphinx, Tiresias, Cassandra, Sibylline leaves, Zadkiel, Old Moore, sorcerer, interpreter, predictor, prognosticator, forecaster, weather forecaster, weatherman, a prophet is without honor in his own country, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the.

brew

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Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive), Verb (intransitive)

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun brew has 1 sense

Verb brew has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

brewv. t. [OE. brewen, AS. breówan; akin to D. brouwen, OHG. priuwan, MHG. briuwen, br, G. brauen, Icel. brugga, Sw. brygga, Dan. brygge, and perh. to L. defrutum must boiled down, Gr. bry^ton (for fry^ton?) a kind of beer. The original meaning seems to have been to prepare by heat. Broth, Bread.].
  •  To boil or seethe; to cook.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.  [1913 Webster]
    "Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief.  [1913 Webster]
    "Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver!"  [1913 Webster]
brewv. i. 
  •  To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.  [1913 Webster]
    "I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering; as, a storm brews in the west.  [1913 Webster]
    "There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest."  [1913 Webster]
brewn. 
     The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

brew, v. & n.
--v.
1 tr. a make (beer etc.) by infusion, boiling, and fermentation. b make (tea etc.) by infusion or (punch etc.) by mixture.
2 intr. undergo either of these processes (the tea is brewing).
3 intr. (of trouble, a storm, etc.) gather force; threaten (mischief was brewing).
4 tr. bring about; set in train; concoct (brewed their fiendish scheme).
--n.
1 an amount (of beer etc.) brewed at one time (this year's brew).
2 what is brewed (esp. with regard to its quality) (a good strong brew).
3 the action or process of brewing.

Idiom
brew up make tea. brew-up n. an instance of making tea.
Derivative
brewer n.
Etymology
OE breowan f. Gmc

THESAURUS

brew

John Barleycorn, Pilsner, alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, ale, angle, approach, aqua vitae, ardent spirits, await, bake, barbecue, baste, bathe, be imminent, be in store, beer, begin, besprinkle, beverage, bitters, blanch, blast, blossom, blow, blow a hurricane, blow great guns, blow over, blow up, bluster, bock beer, boil, bootleg, booze, braise, breathe, breeze, breeze up, bring about, broil, brown, burgeon, cabal, cause, coddle, collude, color, combination, come on, come up, complot, compose, composition, compound, concoct, concoction, confection, confront, connive, conspire, contrive, cook, cook up, countermine, counterplot, curry, decoct, decoction, decoctum, develop, devil, devise, distill, do, do to perfection, douche, draw near, draw nigh, draw on, dredge, drench, drink, drouk, dye, engineer, entincture, face, ferment, finagle, finesse, fire, fix up, flavor, flourish, flush, form, forthcome, frame, frame up, freshen, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, fry, gather, germinate, get up, go on, griddle, grill, grog, grow, grow up, half-and-half, hang over, hard liquor, hash, hatch, hatch a plot, hatch up, heat, hodgepodge, hover, huff, hypertrophy, imbrue, imbue, impend, impregnate, increase, inebriant, infiltrate, infuse, inject, instill, intoxicant, intoxicating liquor, intrigue, jumble, lager beer, lave, lay a plot, leach, leaven, lie over, light beer, liquor, little brown jug, lixiviate, loom, lower, macerate, machinate, make, make up, malt liquor, maneuver, mature, mead, medley, melange, menace, mishmash, mix, mixture, moonlight, moonshine, mushroom, near, near beer, operate, outgrow, oven-bake, overdevelop, overgrow, overhang, overtop, pan, pan-broil, parboil, pastiche, penetrate, percolate, permeate, pervade, pipe up, plan, plot, poach, porter, potable, potation, potpourri, prepare, prepare food, procreate, produce, puff, pullulate, pulque, punch bowl, put together, rage, reproduce, rig, rinse, roast, rum, sake, salad, saturate, saute, scallop, scheme, schnapps, sear, season, seethe, set in, shirr, shoot up, simmer, soak, social lubricant, sodden, sop, souse, spirits, spring up, sprout, sprout up, squall, start, steam, steep, stew, stir-fry, storm, stout, strong drink, strong waters, suffuse, tea, temper, the Demon Rum, the bottle, the cup, the flowing bowl, the luscious liquor, the ruddy cup, threaten, thrive, tincture, tinge, toast, tower, toxicant, transfuse, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upsprout, vegetate, waft, wangle, wash, water of life, waterlog, wax, whiff, whiffle

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brew

Mixture

VB mix, join, combine, commix, immix, intermix, mix up with, mingle, commingle, intermingle, bemingle, shuffle, pound together, hash up, stir up, knead, brew, impregnate with, interlard, intertwine, interweave, associate with, miscegenate, be mixed, get among, be entangled with, instill, imbue, infuse, suffuse, transfuse, infiltrate, dash, tinge, tincture, season, sprinkle, besprinkle, attemper, medicate, blend, cross, alloy, amalgamate, compound, adulterate, sophisticate, infect.

Preparation

VB prepare, get ready, make ready, make preparations, settle preliminaries, get up, sound the note of preparation, set in order, put in order, forecast, prepare the ground, plow the ground, dress the ground, till the soil, cultivate the soil, predispose, sow the seed, lay a train, dig a mine, lay the groundwork, fix the groundwork, lay the basis, fix the basis, lay the foundations, fix the foundations, dig the foundations, erect the scaffolding, lay the first stone, roughhew, cut out work, block out, hammer out, lick into shape, elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity, nurture, hatch, cook, brew, temper, anneal, smelt, barbecue, infumate, maturate, equip, arm, man, fit-out, fit up, furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim, accouter, array, fettle, fledge, dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up, refurbish, sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set, prime, attune, whet the knife, whet the sword, wind up, screw up, adjust, put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness, pack, train, inure, breed, prepare for, rehearse, make provision for, take steps, take measures, take precautions, provide, provide against, beat up for recruits, open the door to, set one's house in order, make all snug, clear the decks, clear for action, close one's ranks, shuffle the cards, prepare oneself, serve an apprenticeship, lay oneself out for, get into harness, gird up one's loins, buckle on one's armor, reculer pour mieux sauter, prime and load, shoulder arms, get the steam up, put the horses to, guard against, make sure against, forearm, make sure, prepare for the evil day, have a rod in pickle, provide against a rainy day, feather one's nest, lay in provisions, make investments, keep on foot, be prepared, be ready, hold oneself in readiness, keep one's powder dry, lie in wait for, anticipate, principiis obstare, veniente occurrere morbo.

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