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Word Meanings - WITCHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That witches or enchants; suited to enchantment or witchcraft; bewitching. "The very witching time of night." Shak. -- Witch"ing*ly, adv.

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  • NIGHT-FARING
    Going or traveling in the night. Gay.
  • SUITABILITY
    The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
  • NIGHTLY
    At night; every night.
  • NIGHTMAN
    One whose business is emptying privies by night.
  • SUITRESS
    A female supplicant. Rowe.
  • SUITING
    Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.
  • WITCH-ELM
    See WYCH-ELM
  • WITCH
    A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera. (more info) the same word as AS. witiga, witga, a soothsayer ; cf. Fries. wikke, a witch, LG. wikken to predict, Icel. vitki a wizard, 1. One who practices
  • WITCHING
    That witches or enchants; suited to enchantment or witchcraft; bewitching. "The very witching time of night." Shak. -- Witch"ing*ly, adv.
  • BEWITCHING
    Having power to bewitch or fascinate; enchanting; captivating; charming. -- Be*witch"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*witch"ing*ness, n.
  • NIGHTLONG
    Lasting all night.
  • BEWITCHERY
    The power of bewitching or fascinating; bewitchment; charm; fascination. There is a certain bewitchery or fascination in words. South.
  • WITCHCRAFT
    1. The practices or art of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with evil spirits. 2. Power more than natural; irresistible influence. He hath a witchcraft Over the king in 's tongue. Shak.
  • NIGHTSHADE
    A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna
  • NIGHTLESS
    Having no night.
  • NIGHTTIME
    The time from dusk to dawn; -- opposed to Ant: daytime.
  • SUIT
    1. To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word. Shak. 2. To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit. Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well. Dryden. Raise her notes to that sublime degree Which
  • NIGHT-BLOOMING
    Blooming in the night. Night-blooming cereus. See Note under Cereus.
  • NIGHTISH
    Of or pertaining to night.
  • WITCH-TREE
    The witch-hazel.
  • KNIGHTLESS
    Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
  • ALLNIGHT
    Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. Bacon.
  • UNKNIGHT
    To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
  • UNWITCH
    To free from a witch or witches; to fee from witchcraft. B. Jonson.
  • DEMISUIT
    A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the things, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.
  • MIDNIGHT SUN
    The sun shining at midnight in the arctic or antarctic summer.
  • SEVENNIGHT
    A week; any period of seven consecutive days and nights. See Sennight.
  • FORTNIGHT
    The space of fourteen days; two weeks. (more info) nights, our ancestors reckoning time by nights and winters; so, also,
  • MIDNIGHT
    The middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Shak.
  • POINT SWITCH
    A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
  • KNIGHT BANNERET
    A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field
  • UNSUIT
    Not to suit; to be unfit for. Quarles.

 

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