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A conjurer; an enchanter; a magician. Bacon. Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers. Ex. vii. 11.

A female sorcerer.

Act or practice of using sorcery.

Of or pertaining to sorcery.

ncy; witchcraft; enchantment. Adder's wisdom I have learned, To fence my ear against thy sorceries. Milton.

Same as Torque, 1.

arge candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame. They light the nuptial torch. Milton. Torch thistle. (Bot.) See under Thistle.

A race by men carrying torches, as in ancient Greece.

One whose office it is to carry a torch.

One who gives light with a torch, or as if with a torch. [Obs.] Shak.

The light of a torch, or of torches. Also adjectively; as, a torchlight procession.

a simple thread lace worked upon a pillow with coarse thread; also, a similar lace made by machinery.

Paper with a rough surface; esp., handmade paper of great hardness for the use of painters in water colors.

The inflammable wood of certain trees (Amyris balsamifera, A. Floridana, etc.); also, the trees themselves.

The common mullein, the stalks of which, dipped in suet, anciently served for torches. Called also torch, and hig-taper.

The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil. Dr. Prior.

white crystalline substance which on exposure in the air becomes red; -- called also betaorcin.

A kind of divorce which does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife. Abbott.

off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English y- or i- (corrupted from the AS. inseparable particle ge-, cognate with OHG. ga-, gi-, Goth. ga-), which, as a prefix, made no essential add…

To abandon. [Obs.] Enforced the kingdom to aband. Spenser.