WITCH
WITCH, noun1. A woman who by compact with the devil, practices sorcery or enchantment.2. A woman who is given to unlawful arts.3. A winding sinuous bank.WITCH, verb transitive T...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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WITCH-ELM
WITCH-ELM, noun A kind of elm.
WITCH-HAZEL
WITCH-HAZEL, noun1. A species of elm, (Ulmus montana.)2. The hop-hornbeam, (carpinus ostrya.)The Virginian witch-hazel is the Hamemelis virginica, a shrub which flowers in autum...
WITCHCRAFT
WITCHCRAFT, [witch and craft.]1. The practices of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with the devil.2. Power more than natural.He hath a witchcraft over the king ins to...
WITCHERY
WITCHERY, noun1. Sorcery; enchantment.2. Fascination.
WITE
WITE, verb transitive To reproach; to blame.WITE, noun Blame; reproach.
WITELESS
WITELESS, adjective Blameless.
WITH
WITH, preposition [G.]1. By, noting cause, instrument or means. We are distressed with pain; we are elevated with joy. with study men become learned and respectable. Fire is ext...
WITH-VINE
WITH-VINE, WITH-WINE, noun A local name for the couch-grass.
WITH-WINE
WITH-VINE, WITH-WINE noun A local name for the couch-grass.
WITHAL
WITHAL, adverb Withaul. [with and all.]1. With the rest; together with; likewise; at the same time.If you choose that, then I am yours withalHow modest in exception, and withal ...
WITHDRAW
WITHDRAW, verb transitive [with and draw.]1. To take back; to take from.It is impossible that God should withdraw his presence from any thing.We say, to withdraw capital from a ...
WITHDRAWING
WITHDRAWING, participle present tense Taking back; recalling; retiring.
WITHDRAWING-ROOM
WITHDRAWING-ROOM, noun A room behind another room for retirement; a drawing room.
WITHDRAWMENT
WITHDRAWMENT, noun The act of withdrawing or taking back; a recalling.Their withdrawment from the British and Foreign Bible Society, would tend to paralyze their exertions.
WITHDRAWN
WITHDRAWN, participle passive of withdraw. Recalled; taken back.
WITHE
WITH, WITHE noun [Latin, probably a shoot.]1. A willow twig.2. A band consisting of a twig, or twigs twisted.
WITHER
WITHER, verb intransitive1. To fade; to lose its native freshness; to become sapless; to dry.It shall wither in all the leaves of her spring. Ezekiel 17:9.2. To waste; to pine a...
WITHER-BAND
WITHER-BAND, noun [withers and band.] A piece of iron laid under a saddle near a horses withers, to strengthen the bow.
WITHER-WRUNG
WITHER-WRUNG, adjective Injured or hurt in the withers, as a horse.
WITHERED
WITHERED, participle passive Faded; dried; shrunk.
WITHEREDNESS
WITHEREDNESS, noun The state of being withered.
WITHERING
WITHERING, participle present tense Fading; becoming dry.
WITHERITE
WITHERITE, noun In mineralogy, a carbonate of baryte, first discovered by Dr. Withering; rhomboidal baryte. It is white, gray, or yellow.
WITHERNAM
WITHERNAM, noun In withernam in law, a second or reciprocal distress, in lieu of a first distress which has been eloigned; reprisal.
WITHERS
WITHERS, noun [This seems to signify a joining, from the root of with.] The juncture of the shoulder bones of a horse, at the bottom of the neck.
WITHHELD
WITHHELD, preterit tense and participle passive of withhold.