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Witch Hazel

Definitions: Witch Hazel

Witch Hazel

Noun

1. Any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Hamamelis; bark yields an astringent lotion.

2. Lotion consisting of an astringent alcoholic solution containing an extract from the witch hazel plant.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "witch hazel" was first used: 1541. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Witch Hazel

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Literature

Witch Hazel A shrub supposed to be efficacious in discovering witches. A forked twig of the hazel was made into a divining-rod for the purpose. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Specialty Definition: Witch hazel

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Witch hazel is the name of:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Witch hazel."

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Synonym: Witch Hazel

Synonym: wych hazel (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Witch Hazel

English words defined with "witch hazel": Divining rodgenus Hamamelidanthum, genus Hamamelidoxylon, genus Hamamelis, genus HamamelitesHamamelidanthum, Hamamelidoxylon, Hamamelis, Hamamelitesvernal witch hazel, Virginian witch hazelwych hazel. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Witch Hazel

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Books

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Image Slideshow: Witch Hazel

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Photo Album: Witch Hazel

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Presented By Van Riper & Co. : Risley's Extract Witch Hazel. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Risley's Extract Witch Hazel. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Humphreys' Witch Hazel Ointment. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

  

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Expressions: Witch Hazel

Expressions using "witch hazel": vernal witch hazel Virginian witch hazel. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Witch Hazel

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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witch hazel

217

witch hazel tree

17

witch hazel sound

14

witch hazel plant

6

witch hazel benefit

5

acne witch hazel

4

witch hazel astringent

3

thayers witch hazel

3

witch hazel buy

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Modern Translations: Witch Hazel

Language Translations for "witch hazel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

troldnoed (hamamelis), hamamelis (hamamelis). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Virginische hamamelis (hamamelis), toverhazelaar (hamamelis). (various references)

   

French

  

noisetier de la sorcière, hamamélis de Virginie, hamamélis. (various references)

   

German

  

Hamamelis (hamamelis), Amamelide (hamamelis). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αμάμιλης η βιργίνιος (hamamelis), αμαμήλισ. (various references)

   

Italian

  

hamamelis (hamamelis). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

満作 (bumper crop), 万作 (Hamamelis japonica, Hamamelis mollis). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ま"さく (bumper crop, Hamamelis japonica, Hamamelis mollis). (various references)

   

Manx

  

caschoull. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

itchway azelhay

   

Portuguese

  

hamamélis (hamamelis). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

olmo escocés (wych-elm), hamamelis (hamamelis). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

trollhassel. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

ліщина (avellan, avellane, cobnut, nut tree, nutwood). (various references)

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Ancestral Language Translations: Witch Hazel

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Hamamelis virginiana. (various references)

Old English450-1100

wice. (various references)

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Misspellings: Witch Hazel

Misspellings

"Witch Hazel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: whitch hazel. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Witch Hazel

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-h-i-l-t-w-z"

-3 letters: ethical, hatchel.

-4 letters: atelic, awhile, chaleh, chalet, chetah, chital, halite, health, heliac, thecal, wealth, withal.

-5 letters: aitch, cheat, chela, cheth, chiel, chile, cleat, eclat, ethic, hatch, hazel, heath, hitch, ileac, laich, laith, latch, lathe, lathi, leach, letch, licht, lithe, tache, tawie, teach, telia, telic, theca, tical, twice, waltz, watch, wecht, welch, whale, wheal.

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Alternative Orthography: Witch Hazel


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 69 74 63 68      48 61 7A 65 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01101001 01110100 01100011 01101000 00100000 01001000 01100001 01111010 01100101 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#105 &#116 &#99 &#104 &#32 &#72 &#97 &#122 &#101 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0069 0074 0063 0068      0048 0061 007A 0065 006C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

577586697424267927178

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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乌克兰, for Ukranian;