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Under the power of enchantment; possessed or exercised by enchanters; as, an enchanted castle.

One who enchants; a sorcerer or magician; also, one who delights as by an enchantment. Like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing. Shelley. Enchanter's nightshade (Bot.), a genus (Circæa) of low inconspicuous, perennial plants, found in damp, shady places.

Having a power of enchantment; charming; fascinating. -- En*chant"ing*ly, adv.

The act of enchanting; the production of certain wonderful effects by the aid of demons, or the agency of supposed spirits; the use of magic arts, spells, or charms; incantation. After the last enchantment you did here. Shak.

A woman versed in magical arts; a sorceress; also, a woman who fascinates. Shak.

To charge (with); to impose (a charge) upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.

To incase or inclose in a border or rim; to surround with an ornamental casing, as a gem with gold; to encircle; to inclose; to adorn. Enchased with a wanton ivy twine. Spenser. An precious stones, in studs of gold enchased, The shaggy velvet of his buskins graced. Mickle.

One who enchases.

To chasten. [Obs.]

Occasion, cause, or reason. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To inclose in a chest. Vicars.

Handbook; a manual of devotions. Evelyn.

To cut with a chisel.

A genus of extinct Cretaceous fishes; -- so named from their spear-shaped teeth. They were allied to the pike (Esox).

A cartilaginous tumor growing from the interior of a bone. Quain.

or used in, a country; native; domestic; popular; common; -- said especially of the written characters employed by the common people of ancient Egypt, in distinction from the hieroglyphics. See Demotic.

The basal substance of the cell nucleus; a hyaline or granular substance, more or less fluid during life, in which the other parts of the nucleus are imbedded.

The primitive formative juice, from which the tissues, particularly the cellular tissue, are formed.

A cincture. [Poetic] The vast encincture of that gloomy sea. Wordsworth.

Burnt to cinders. [R.]