Synonyms of the word

beldame

• n. (obsolete) A grandmother.
• n. (now archaic) An old woman, particularly an ugly one.

beldam

• n. Alternative spelling of beldame.

crone

• n. (obsolete) An old woman.
• n. An archetypal figure, a Wise Woman.
• n. An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.
• n. (obsolete) An old ewe.
• n. (obsolete) An old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.

hag

• n. A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard.
• n. (pejorative) An ugly old woman.
• n. A fury; a she-monster.
• n. A hagfish; an eel-like marine marsipobranch, Myxine glutinosa, allied to the lamprey, with a suctorial…
• n. A hagdon or shearwater.
• n. An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
• n. The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.
• n. A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been…
• n. A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.
• v. (transitive) To harass; to weary with vexation.

witch

• n. A person who practices witchcraft; a woman or (archaic outside dialects and Wicca) man who practices witchcraft.
• n. (derogatory) An ugly or unpleasant woman.
• n. One who exercises more-than-common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person.
• n. One given to mischief, especially a woman or child.
• n. (geometry) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
• n. The stormy petrel.
• n. Any of a number of flatfish.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To practise witchcraft.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To bewitch.
• v. (transitive) To dowse for water.
• n. A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat and used as a taper.