witch grass

Noun

Synonyms: witchgrass witch grass old witchgrass old witch grass tumble grass Panicum capillare dog grass couch grass quackgrass quack grass quick grass Agropyron repens

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a weed on cultivated landSynonyms: witchgrass witch grass old witchgrass old witch grass tumble grass Panicum capillare
European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weedSynonyms: dog grass couch grass quackgrass quack grass quick grass witch grass witchgrass Agropyron repens

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Witch \Witch\, n. [OE. wicche, AS. wicce, fem., wicca, masc.; perhaps the same word as AS. w[imac]tiga, w[imac]tga, a soothsayer (cf. Wiseacre); cf. Fries. wikke, a witch, LG. wikken to predict, Icel. vitki a wizard, vitka to bewitch.] [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

There was a man in that city whose name was Simon, a witch.— Wyclif (Acts viii. 9).[1913 Webster]

He can not abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears she's a witch.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.An ugly old woman; a hag. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

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.] [1913 Webster]

4.(Geom.) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera. [1913 Webster]

5.(Zool.) The stormy petrel. [1913 Webster]

6.A Wiccan; an adherent or practitioner of Wicca, a religion which in different forms may be paganistic and nature-oriented, or ditheistic. The term witch applies to both male and female adherents in this sense. [PJC]

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. [1913 Webster]