witch : Idioms & Phrases

• (Zoöl.), a ground pigeon of Jamaica, of the genus Geotrygon.

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• . Same as Night hag, above.

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• noun North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a weed on cultivated land
  old witchgrass; tumble grass; witchgrass; Panicum capillare; old witch grass.
  

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• (Zoöl.), A lepisma.

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• noun fragrant shrub of lower Mississippi valley having very small flowers from midwinter to spring
  Hamamelis vernalis.
  

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• noun common shrub of eastern North America having small yellow flowers after the leaves have fallen
  Hamamelis virginiana.
  

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• noun someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water
  rhabdomancer; dowser.
  

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Wa"ter witch`

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) The dabchick. (b) The stormy petrel. Prov. Eng.

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• a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent purposes. Addison. Cotton Mather.

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• noun any of several deciduous low-growing shrubs of the genus Fothergilla having showy brushlike spikes of white flowers in spring and fiery red and orange autumn color; grows from Alabama to the Allegheny Mountains
  fothergilla.
  

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• 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.)

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• noun an abnormal tufted growth of small branches on a tree or shrub caused by fungi or insects or other physiological disturbance
  witch broom; staghead; hexenbesen.
  

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• noun someone who is believed to heal through magical powers
  

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• noun Eurasian elm often planted as a shade tree
  Ulmus glabra; wych elm.
  

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• noun North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a weed on cultivated land
  old witchgrass; tumble grass; witchgrass; Panicum capillare; old witch grass.
  
• noun European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed
  dog grass; Agropyron repens; quack grass; witchgrass; quackgrass; quick grass; couch grass.
  

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• (Bot.), a kind of grass (Panicum capillare) with minute spikelets on long, slender pedicels forming a light, open panicle.

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• noun any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Hamamelis; bark yields an astringent lotion
  witch hazel; wych hazel; wych hazel plant.
  
• noun lotion consisting of an astringent alcoholic solution containing an extract from the witch hazel plant
  wych hazel.
  

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• noun any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Hamamelis; bark yields an astringent lotion
  witch hazel; wych hazel; wych hazel plant.
  

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• (Bot.), vegetable sulphur. See under Vegetable.

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• noun a fearsome mixture
  witch's brew; witches' brew.
  
  • a witches' brew of gangsters and terrorists
  • mixing dope and alcohol creates a witches' brew

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Witch"-elm` noun

Definitions

1. (Bot.) See Wych-elm.

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Witch"-ha`zel noun

Etymology

See Wych-elm, and Hazel.

Definitions

1. (Bot.) The wych-elm. (b) An American shrub or small tree (Hamamelis Virginica), which blossoms late in autumn.

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• noun comprises genera Hamamelis, Corylopsis, Fothergilla, Liquidambar, Parrotia, and other small genera
  Hamamelidaceae; family Hamamelidaceae.
  

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• noun searching out and harassing dissenters
  

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• noun someone who identifies and punishes people for their opinions
  

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Witch"-tree` noun

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1. (Bot.) The witch-hazel.

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• (Bot.), tufted and distorted branches of the silver fir, caused by the attack of some fungus. Maunder (Treas. of Bot.)

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• noun a fearsome mixture
  witch's brew; witches' brew.
  
  • a witches' brew of gangsters and terrorists
  • mixing dope and alcohol creates a witches' brew

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• noun an abnormal tufted growth of small branches on a tree or shrub caused by fungi or insects or other physiological disturbance
  witch broom; staghead; hexenbesen.
  

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• noun a fearsome mixture
  witch's brew; witches' brew.
  
  • a witches' brew of gangsters and terrorists
  • mixing dope and alcohol creates a witches' brew

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• noun a yellow jelly fungus
  Tremella lutescens.
  

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• (Bot.), a name of several gelatinous cryptogamous plants, as Nostoc commune, and Exidia glandulosa. See Nostoc.

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• noun a midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery; in the Middle Ages it was supposed to be a demonic orgy
  sabbat.
  

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