Witch
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A man who practises witchcraft. A woman who is learned in and actively practices witchcraft. An ugly or unpleasant woman. An Atlantic flatfish, Glyptocephalus cynoglossus; Torbay sole.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To practise witchcraft To bewitch To dowse for water
Example sentence: Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
Beldame
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An old woman, particularly an ugly one.grandmother.