Adjective : a witching potion. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : She witched him into going. From Dictionary.com.
Volume soared across the board on a "witching" day of options expirations. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. Stocks Remain Higher In Light Turnover - Investors.com] Reference
This is called the witching hour. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 12, 2007] Reference
Triple witching -- again, it's a market technical. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2001] Reference
'SENZA MOCCOLI!' black, witching eyes -- farewell!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Throw their pale shadows o'er this witching scene. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction Volume 14, No. 391, September 26, 1829] Reference
It's triple -- actually, that's not witching though. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2005] Reference
Drawing my secrets forth, witching my soul with talk. From Wordnik.com. [Ionica] Reference
There fall those witching sounds they've heard before. From Wordnik.com. [Rowena & Harold A Romance in Rhyme of an Olden Time, of Hastyngs and Normanhurst] Reference
"I do; for that witching hour is certainly near at hand.". From Wordnik.com. [Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines] Reference
She had a witching mouth, a dainty nose, and an open brow. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
At the witching hour of twilight doth my memory love to dwell. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittulae, Random Verses] Reference
But this lot still waiting patiently for what is witching hour. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 20, 2007] Reference
So full of beauty's witching grace, were lightly hovering round. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon] Reference
There was something extremely witching in her precocious charms. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
That but lured away our moments with its subtle, witching powers. From Wordnik.com. [Lays from the West] Reference
We are facing what Wall Street would call the "triple witching hour.". From Wordnik.com. [Borderline Dumb] Reference
And they were strange and weird -- that is, wild, unnatural, and witching. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Dolphin] Reference
Then came the twelve long deliberate strokes announcing the witching hour. From Wordnik.com. [A Dixie School Girl] Reference
O'BRIEN: You know on Wall Street they talk about those triple-witching days?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2005] Reference
So that when we finally tumbled in, it was long after the witching hour of night. From Wordnik.com. [S.O.S. Stand to!] Reference
Soldiers call this the witching hour, dusk when insurgents often ramp up their fight. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 23, 2007] Reference
Soldiers call this the witching hour, dusk, when insurgents often ramp up their fight. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2007] Reference
But she further conceded that she had not meant to rise at the witching hour of three A. M. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
Night waned upon this talk; and even the witching hour had gone by, before we retired to rest. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
The witching hour over and I have seen no woodland spirits come to haunt us, and no human beings. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest] Reference
It was thought that the witching power belonged to families, and descended from mothers to daughters. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
Harting, and had the power of witching herself into a hare, and was continually, like Hecate, attended by dogs. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
At that "witching hour of night when churchyards yawn," we also had a touch of the gaping fit, and thought of rest. From Wordnik.com. [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference
Taller than her compeers, -- in all she said or did, a native dignity and a witching grace were exquisitely blended. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
Today was quadruple witching, options expirations which accounted for some of the volatility and a lot of the volume. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 20, 2003] Reference
It's almost the witching hour so we'd like to share some Halloween safety tips from our fellow bloggers at Consumer Reports. From Wordnik.com. [This week in safety] Reference
That smiling face, with its sparkling eyes and its witching smile, was another thing, and seemed to belong to another person. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
All three "heavy-weights" of monetary union -- Germany, France and Italy -- also suffer from a kind of "triple witching hour.". From Wordnik.com. [Europe Misses The Point] Reference
It was only rarely she tried her English, though, when she did, it was with such a witching grace I could have wished it oftener. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
"But I've promised myself a whole night with you, and I'm not going to be chased away, just at the witching hour," Tavia insisted. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Dale : a girl of today] Reference
Noon came, that witching time with all who labor in the fields or woods, and not until then did Mr. Logan lay down his clumsy hoe. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
I had sometimes fondly, though vainly, dreamed of, with all its witching possibilities and which now lay crumbled to dust at my feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
Instead, Papandreou and others shuttled to Belgrade, seeking to convince Milosevic that, as Rondos puts it, "the witching hour had come.". From Wordnik.com. [Greek Revival] Reference
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