Search the Dictionary

A familiar spirit; a witch's attendant. [Obs.] A trifling fly, none of your great familiars. B. Jonson.

To foretell; to predict. [Obs.] My mother was half a witch; never anything that she forespake but came to pass. Beau. & Fl.

ly of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.

s, the ends of whose arms are divided into two sharp points; -- called also cross double fitché. A cross forked of three points is a cross, each of whose arms terminates in three sharp points. -- Forked counsel, advice pointing more than one way; ambiguous advice. [Obs.] B. Jonson. -- Fork"ed*ly, adv. -- Fork"ed*nes…

To bewitch. [Obs.] Drayton.

fied place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification. Detached works, depending solely on their own strength, belong to the class of works termed forts. Farrow.

To strengthen and secure by forts or batteries, or by surrounding with a wall or ditch or other military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces.

A ditch or moat.

ucted by the Romans in England and other parts of Europe; -- so called from the fosse or ditch on each side for keeping it dry.

The European polecat; -- called also European ferret, and fitchew. See Polecat. [Written also foulmart, foulimart, and fulimart.]

by the spontaneous evaporation of its essential oil. When purified, it is called yellow pitch, white pitch, or Burgundy pitch.

The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel; -- sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.

An under servant for the kitchen; a scullion; a cook's errand boy. [Obs.] Halliwell.

The buttock or tight of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. Goldsmith.

Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome. Grainger.

re. [R.] It seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a thing of ghostology and witchcraft. Hawthorne.

A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang. Conscience . . . is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels. Tillotson.

Witchcraft; magic; a spell. Tennyson.

One whose trade it is to make or sell gloves. Glover's suture or stitch, a kind of stitch used in sewing up wounds, in which the thread is drawn alternately through each side from within outward.

Invocation of evil spirits; witchcraft. [Obs.] Hallywell.