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.