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One who chants; a singer or songster. Pope.

A name for several species of mushroom, of which one (Cantharellus cibrius) is edible, the others reputed poisonous.

An articular surface on the ilium of birds against which the great trochanter of the femur plays.

One who, or that which, disenchants.

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.

Between the trochanters of the femur.

An underchanter; a precentor's deputy in a cathedral; a succentor.

One of two processes near the head of the femur, the outer being called the great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter.

Of or pertaining to one or both of the trochanters.

Same as Subchanter.

A great magician, wizard, or enchanter. Spenser.

A chanter.

A female chanter or singer. Milton.

The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3.

be found among you any one that . . . useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter. Deut. xviii. 10.

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

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

d black berries reputed to be poisonous. Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna (a). -- Enchanter's nightshade. See under Enchanter. -- Stinking nightshade. See Henbane. -- Three-leaved nightshade. See Trillium.

A necromancer. [Obs.] These false enchanters or nigromanciens. Chaucer.

The leader of the choir in a cathedral; -- called also the chanter or master of the choir. Hook.