There was a man in that city whose name was Simon, a witch. Wyclif (Acts viii. 9).

He can not abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears she's a witch. Shak.

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.

[I 'll] witch sweet ladies with my words and looks. Shak.

Whether within us or without
The spell of this illusion be
That witches us to hear and see. Lowell.