2. Verb. (third-person singular of charm) ¹
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Definition of Charms
1. charm [v] - See also: charm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Charms
Literary usage of Charms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1917)
"charms by Actual Defense Here belong many protective charms, such as magic circles
and similar ... The majority of these charms act as preventive medicines. ..."
2. Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (1895)
"mention, it lay chiefly in the people deceived, or equally in both ; and this
was in wearing charms, philters,1 exorcisms,2 amulets,3 and I know not what ..."
3. Transactions by Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society (1864)
"The domestic treatment of disease among our poor consists chiefly of charms and
ceremonies, and even when recourse is had to material remedies, ..."
4. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1895)
"charms. (Vol. vi. p. 202.) Charming was very common in my present parish, and is
still. ... Very unfortunately a number of old charms which were once in the ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"BELIEVE ME, IF ALL THOSE ENDEARING YOUNG charms BELIEVE me, if all those endearing
young charms, Which I gaze on so fondly to-day, Were to change by ..."
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