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The daughter of Saturn and Ops or Rhea, the goddess of corn and tillage.

A white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite, and used as a substitute for beeswax.

A female dancer. [Obs.] Wyclif.

An order of large birds; the Ratitæ; -- called also Proceri.

A female sorcerer.

Public festivals in honor of Ceres.

Having the character of a drab or low wench. "The drabbish sorceress." Drant.

Pertaining to Eleusis, in Greece, or to secret rites in honor of Ceres, there celebrated; as, Eleusinian mysteries or festivals.

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

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

lar nest on the stems of wheat and other plants. -- Harvest queen, an image pepresenting Ceres, formerly carried about on the last day of harvest. Milton. -- Harvest spider. (Zoöl.) See Daddy longlegs.

a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a with.

in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.

The son of Jason and Ceres, and the god of wealth. He was represented as bearing a cornucopia, and as blind, because his gifts were bestowed without discrimination of merit.

manner of drinking, that is, by drinking first and passing the cup. [Obs.] The lovely sorceress mixed, and to the prince Health, peace, and joy propined. C. Smart.

red, the first four of which were found near the beginning of the century, and are called Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta.

al or magical power by compact with an evil spirit, esp. with the Devil; a sorcerer or sorceress; -- now applied chiefly or only to women, but formerly used of men as well. There was a man in that city whose name was Simon, a witch. Wyclif (Acts viii. 9). He can not abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears she's a w…