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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.

One who, or that which, disenchants.

A great magician, wizard, or enchanter. Spenser.

ot 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.

and 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.

To clothe again; to cover, as with a robe; to robe. Her, nathless, . . . the enchanterrevest and decked with due habiliments. Spenser.

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

Not blest; excluded from benediction; hence, accursed; wretched. "Unblessed enchanter." Milton.

One devoted to the black art; a magician; a conjurer; a sorcerer; an enchanter. The wily wizard must be caught. Dryden.