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Of or pertaining to fibrils or fibers; as, fibrillar twitchings.

To snap; to project quickly. The use of the elastic switch to fillip small missiles with. Tylor.

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.

To bewitch. [Obs.] Drayton.

ore. [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.

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

). Squirrel-tail grass, troublesome to animals. Seacoast and Northwest. Hordeum jubatum. Switch grass, hay, cut young. Panicum virgatum. Timothy, cut young, the best of hay. North. Phleum pratense. Velvet grass, hay on poor soil. South. Holcus lanatus. Vernal grass, pasture, hay, lawn. Anthoxanthum odoratum. Wire grass…

apper (Zoöl.), a Florida fish; the sea lawyer. See Snapper. -- Gray snipe (Zoöl.), the dowitcher in winter plumage. -- Gray whale (Zoöl.), a rather large and swift California whale (Rhachianectes glaucus), formerly taken in large numbers in the bays; -- called also grayback, devilfish, and hardhead.…

The dowitcher.

A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard. [Obs.] "[Silenus] that old hag." Golding.

Ridden by a hag or witch; hence, afflicted with nightmare. Beattie. Cheyne.

Born of a hag or witch. Shak.

A genus of plants which includes the witch-hazel (Hamamelis Virginica), a preparation of which is used medicinally.

y in a military sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor. At least we 'll die witch harness on our back. Shak.

a betulina), allied to the American ruffed grouse. -- Hazel hoe, a kind of grub hoe. -- Witch hazel. See Witch-hazel, and Hamamelis.

A witch; a hag. Middleton.

Hence: Anything agreeably fascinating and charning; enchantment; witchery; glamour. Ye soft illusions, dear deceits, arise! Pope.