Witch vs. Witcher — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Witch and Witcher
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Witch
A person, especially a woman, claiming or popularly believed to possess magical powers and practice sorcery.
Witcher
A dowser.
Witch
A believer or follower of Wicca; a Wiccan.
Witcher
A male witch; warlock.
Witch
(Offensive) An old woman considered to be ugly or frightening.
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Witch
A woman considered to be spiteful or overbearing.
Witch
(Informal) A woman or girl considered to be charming or fascinating.
Witch
One particularly skilled or competent at one's craft
"A witch of a writer, [she] is capable of developing an intensity that verges on ferocity" (Peter S. Prescott).
Witch
To work or cast a spell on; bewitch.
Witch
To cause, bring, or effect by witchcraft.
Witch
To use a divining rod to find underground water or minerals; dowse.
Witch
A person who practices witchcraft.
Witch
(now usually particularly) A woman who is learned in and actively practices witchcraft.
Witch
An ugly or unpleasant woman.
I hate that old witch.
Witch
One who exercises more-than-common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person.
Witch
One given to mischief, especially a woman or child.
Witch
(geometry) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
Witch
The storm petrel.
Witch
Any of a number of flatfish:
Witch
Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (Torbay sole), found in the North Atlantic.
Witch
Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis (megrim), found in the North Atlantic.
Witch
Arnoglossus scapha, found near New Zealand.
Witch
The Indomalayan butterfly Araotes lapithis, of the family Lycaenidae.
Witch
A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat and used as a taper.
Witch
(intransitive) To dowse for water.
Witch
To practise witchcraft.
Witch
(transitive) To bewitch.
Witch
A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.
Witch
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.
There was a man in that city whose name was Simon, a witch.
He can not abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears she's a witch.
Witch
An ugly old woman; a hag.
Witch
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.
Witch
A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
Witch
The stormy petrel.
Witch
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.
Witch
To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.
[I 'll] witch sweet ladies with my words and looks.
Whether within us or withoutThe spell of this illusion beThat witches us to hear and see.
Witch
A female sorcerer or magician
Witch
A being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil
Witch
An ugly evil-looking old woman
Witch
Cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something
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