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A double slip of leather by which bells are fastened to a hawk's legs.

To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery. See how I am bewitched; behold, mine arm Is like a blasted sapling withered up. Shak.

The state of being bewitched. Gauden.

One who bewitches.

The power of bewitching or fascinating; bewitchment; charm; fascination. There is a certain bewitchery or fascination in words. South.

Having power to bewitch or fascinate; enchanting; captivating; charming. -- Be*witch"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*witch"ing*ness, n.

The act of bewitching, or the state of being bewitched. Tylor.

Flighty; passing rapidly from one subject to another; not having the faculty of attention. Bacon.

A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.

Dull; stupid. Blunt-witted lord, ignoble in demeanor! Shak.

See Cowhage.

The title of the eldest son of the czar of Russia.

Deprived of wits or understanding; distracted. [Obs.] Drayton.

The red-breasted or gray snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus); -- called also brownback, and grayback.

Stupid.

A witness by means of his ears; one who is within hearing and does hear; a hearer. Fuller.

One who sees a thing done; one who has ocular view anything. We . . . were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 2 Pet. i. 16.

Dull; stupid. Shak.

A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace.

A leader, or would-be leader, in matters of knowledge or taste. [Obs.] Nor that the forewits, that would draw the rest unto their liking, always like the best. B. Jonson.