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Substantiivi

1. A person (now usually particularly a woman) who uses magical or similar supernatural powers to influence or predict events.
2. (euphemistic) A bitch.
3. A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat and used as a taper.
4. A woman who follows Wicca or similar New Age pagan beliefs.
5. (figurative, chiefly derogatory) An ugly or unpleasant woman.
6. One who exercises more-than-common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person.
7. One given to mischief, especially a woman or child.
8. (geometry) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
9. A storm petrel.
10. Any of a number of flatfish of species:
11. Glyptocephalus cynoglossus, the witch flounder or Torbay sole, found in the North Atlantic.
12. Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis (megrim), found in the North Atlantic.
13. Arnoglossus scapha, found near New Zealand.
14. An Indomalayan butterfly, of Araotes lapithis, of the family Lycaenidae.

Verbi

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To practise witchcraft.
2. (intransitive) To dowse for water.
3. (transitive) To bewitch.