1. [n]  a being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil
2. [n]  a female sorcerer or magician
3. [n]  an ugly evil-looking old woman
4. [v]  cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something

Witch
Julia, a young woman with extraordinary supernatural powers, must decide whether to risk her life to change a future she envisions as horrific, or let fate take its course.

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1. \Witch\, n. [Cf. {Wick} of a lamp.]
   A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other
   fat, and used as a taper. [Prov. Eng.]
   

2. \Witch\, n. [OE. wicche, AS. wicce, fem., wicca, masc.;
   perhaps the same word as AS. w[=i]tiga, w[=i]tga, a
   soothsayer (cf. {Wiseacre}); cf. Fries. wikke, a witch, LG.
   wikken to predict, Icel. vitki a wizard, vitka to bewitch.]
   1. One who practices the black art, or magic; one regarded as
      possessing supernatural 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 witch.                 --Shak.
   2. An ugly old woman; a hag. --Shak.
   3. One who exercises more than common power of attraction; a
      charming or bewitching person; also, one given to
      mischief; -- said especially of a woman or child.
      [Colloq.]
   4. (Geom.) A certain curve of the third order, described by
      Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
   5. (Zo["o]l.) The stormy petrel.
   {Witch balls}, a name applied to the interwoven rolling
      masses of the stems of herbs, which are driven by the
      winds over the steppes of Tartary. Cf. {Tumbleweed}.
      --Maunder (Treas. of Bot.)
   {Witches' besoms} (Bot.), tufted and distorted branches of
      the silver fir, caused by the attack of some fungus.
      --Maunder (Treas. of Bot.)
   {Witches' butter} (Bot.), a name of several gelatinous
      cryptogamous plants, as {Nostoc commune}, and {Exidia
      glandulosa}. See {Nostoc}.
   {Witch grass} (Bot.), a kind of grass ({Panicum capillare})
      with minute spikelets on long, slender pedicels forming a
      light, open panicle.
   {Witch meal} (Bot.), vegetable sulphur. See under
      {Vegetable}.
   

3. \Witch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Witched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Witching}.] [AS. wiccian.]
   To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.
         [I 'll] witch sweet ladies with my words and looks.
                                                  --Shak.
         Whether within us or without The spell of this illusion
         be That witches us to hear and see.      --Lowell.
   

Occurs only in Ex. 22:18, as the rendering of _mekhashshepheh_, the feminine form of the word, meaning "enchantress" (R.V., "sorceress"), and in Deut. 18:10, as the rendering of _mekhashshepheth_, the masculine form of the word, meaning "enchanter."