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witch grass
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Witch grass
(gcide) | Witch \Witch\, n. [OE. wicche, AS. wicce, fem., wicca, masc.;
perhaps the same word as AS. w[imac]tiga, w[imac]tga, a
soothsayer (cf. Wiseacre); cf. Fries. wikke, a witch, LG.
wikken to predict, Icel. vitki a wizard, vitka to bewitch.]
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1. 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.
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There was a man in that city whose name was Simon, a
witch. --Wyclif (Acts
viii. 9).
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He can not abide the old woman of Brentford; he
swears she's a witch. --Shak.
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2. An ugly old woman; a hag. --Shak.
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3. 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.
[Colloq.]
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4. (Geom.) A certain curve of the third order, described by
Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
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5. (Zool.) The stormy petrel.
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6. 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.
[PJC]
Witch balls, 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.)
Witches' besoms (Bot.), tufted and distorted branches of
the silver fir, caused by the attack of some fungus.
--Maunder (Treas. of Bot.)
Witches' butter (Bot.), a name of several gelatinous
cryptogamous plants, as Nostoc commune, and {Exidia
glandulosa}. See Nostoc.
Witch grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Panicum capillare)
with minute spikelets on long, slender pedicels forming a
light, open panicle.
Witch meal (Bot.), vegetable sulphur. See under
Vegetable.
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witch grass
(wn) | witch grass
n 1: North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a
weed on cultivated land [syn: witchgrass, witch grass,
old witchgrass, old witch grass, tumble grass,
Panicum capillare]
2: European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes;
naturalized in North America as a weed [syn: dog grass,
couch grass, quackgrass, quack grass, quick grass,
witch grass, witchgrass, Agropyron repens] |
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old witch grass
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switch grass
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witch grass
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Switch grass
(gcide) | Switch \Switch\, n. [Cf. OD. swick a scourage, a whip. Cf.
Swink, Swing.]
1. A small, flexible twig or rod.
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Mauritania, on the fifth medal, leads a horse with
something like a thread; in her other hand she holds
a switch. --Addison.
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2. (Railways) A movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails,
for transferring cars from one track to another.
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3. A separate mass or trees of hair, or of some substance (at
jute) made to resemble hair, worn on the head by women.
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4. (Elec.) A device for shifting an electric current to
another circuit, or for making and breaking a circuit.
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Safety switch (Railways), a form of switch contrived to
prevent or lessen the danger of derailment of trains.
Switch back (Railways), an arrangement of tracks whereby
elevations otherwise insurmountable are passed. The track
ascends by a series of zigzags, the engine running
alternately forward and back, until the summit is reached.
Switch board (Elec.), a collection of switches in one piece
of apparatus, so arranged that a number of circuits may be
connected or combined in any desired manner.
Switch grass. (Bot.) See under Grass.
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twitch grass
(gcide) | Quitch grass \Quitch" grass`\ (kw[i^]ch" gr[.a]s`). [Properly
quick grass, being probably so called from its vigorous
growth, or from its tenacity of life. See Quick, and cf.
Couch grass.] (Bot.)
A perennial grass (Agropyrum repens) having long running
rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously,
and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass,
quack grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See
Illustration in Appendix.
[1913 Webster]Twitch grass \Twitch" grass`\ (Bot.)
See Quitch grass.
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Twitch grass
(gcide) | Quitch grass \Quitch" grass`\ (kw[i^]ch" gr[.a]s`). [Properly
quick grass, being probably so called from its vigorous
growth, or from its tenacity of life. See Quick, and cf.
Couch grass.] (Bot.)
A perennial grass (Agropyrum repens) having long running
rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously,
and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass,
quack grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See
Illustration in Appendix.
[1913 Webster]Twitch grass \Twitch" grass`\ (Bot.)
See Quitch grass.
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old witch grass
(wn) | old witch grass
n 1: North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a
weed on cultivated land [syn: witchgrass, witch grass,
old witchgrass, old witch grass, tumble grass,
Panicum capillare] |
switch grass
(wn) | switch grass
n 1: grass of western America used for hay [syn: switch grass,
Panicum virgatum] |
witch grass
(wn) | witch grass
n 1: North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a
weed on cultivated land [syn: witchgrass, witch grass,
old witchgrass, old witch grass, tumble grass,
Panicum capillare]
2: European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes;
naturalized in North America as a weed [syn: dog grass,
couch grass, quackgrass, quack grass, quick grass,
witch grass, witchgrass, Agropyron repens] |
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