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  • within myself
    [cf. OED within oneself mentally, without outward expression] phr. as for me; privately: Within myself I do agree with some
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  • withery
    /wídari/ [cf. OED idem, wilting, inclined to wither rare] adj. (of people) wrinkled from age: They got some withery old
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  • wither-up
    /wída op/ [cf. OED withered of the body; shrivelled up by disease or age] adj. (of people) thin; gaunt, cf.
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  • with
    prep. 1. [Trin. idem (Winer); OED "after full, now replace by of"] in the phrase: full with: I had a
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  • witchy
    [OED idem; cf. Scots witchy witch-like EDD] adj. 1. magically endowed: 1966 (Crow­ley 29). (Black) 2. like (that of) a witch: That cat lookin'
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  • witch-woman
    [also Cam. CCD, Krio KED; Scots idem CSD] n. witch: 1918 His mother was a witch-woman (Parsons 69). (Black)
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  • witchman
    [also Cam. CCD, Krio KED, Gul. (Par­sons 1923:25); OED idem] n. a man who prac­tices witchcraft: 1918 Ol' witch-man (Parsons
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  • witchcraft
    [cf. Gul. witchcraft 'ooman (Writers' Program 1940:49)) n. witch or wizard: 1918 Dere's an ol' man once, seemed to be a
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  • witch bush
    n. a grass-like plant (sp?): 1974 (Bul­lard 84). (Grand Bah.)
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  • witch
    [OED idem →1801; from the attributive n.] adj. bewitched: 1918 It was a witch cocoanut (Parsons 96). (Inagua, San Sal.) -n. in the
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