(v. t.) To charm by sorcery; to act on by enchantment; to get control of by magical words and rites.
(v. t.) To delight in a high degree; to charm; to enrapture; as, music enchants the ear.
Example Sentences:
(1) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(2) Not everyone was enchanted by Burgess: Edward Crankshaw, for instance, was typical of the 1950s Observer .
(3) Monsieur Blue open daily midday-2am; Tokyo Eat open daily midday-midnight; Le Smack open midday-midnight Le Musée de la Vie Romantique Cafe Vie Romantique This is one of the most discrete but enchanting Parisian museums, an early 19th-century mansion tucked away down a narrow cul-de-sac in the backstreets of Pigalle.
(4) Nor should the seal boat rides, which are every bit as enchanting for adults as they are for children.
(5) "Right now we're enchanted with it, but … talk to us after another year.
(6) Kent provides an attractive landscape, but not outstandingly so; low-lying mists can seem enchanting one moment, threatening the next.
(7) In the preface to another story, "The Snow Image", he described this sense of occlusion as he "sat down by the wayside of life, like a man under enchantment, and a shrubbery sprung up around me, and the bushes grew to be saplings, and the saplings became trees, until no exit appeared possible through the tangling depths of my obscurity".
(8) Marion Cotillard looks amazing in her selection of cocktail shift dresses in Woody Allen's time-travel comedy Midnight in Paris , while Bérénice Bejo, enchants in cloche hats and flapper dresses in silent-era pastiche The Artist .
(9) While the Lego and Hornby train-filled Wonderland was crammed with small boys intent on destruction on the Guardian's visit this week, the Enchanted Forest, with fairy voices emanating from multicoloured flowers and hundreds of dolls, was the main draw for girls.
(10) "I am left with only memories now, wonderful memories which fill me with pride, and I feel truly enchanted to have spent my life knowing him."
(11) The steel columns that support the enchanting green roof of this parkland pavilion are so thin, they must be held in tension by long wire cables.
(12) Agni Taverna is an ordinary restaurant, albeit with enchanting views to the mountains of Albania and a friendly black and white cat.
(13) In the Odyssey , Circe warns Odysseus against the Sirens "who enchant all who come near them".
(14) So have young people for whom Blair is history (wicked history at that), enchanted by the campaign’s fervour.
(15) 360 degrees of enchantment and the highlight of our South African holiday.
(16) • Where to stay: Encanto da Lua , meaning The Moon's Enchantment, is just a short walk from the pools and ringside for the rising of the moon (standard doubles from R$ 230,00 (£70) a night, including breakfast, dinner and transfers).
(17) Highlight: Her enchanting Hansel and Gretel magic forest in biscuit week and being crowned first star baker of the series for her Jaffa orange cakes.
(18) Entrance to the park is free, combined entrance to the villa and the Casa delle Civette €10, free for EU citizens under-18s or over-65s Santa Costanza Santa Costanza Photograph: Alamy This enchanting circular chapel dates to the middle of the 4th century AD and is the earliest church in the city surviving more or less in its original form, with exquisite mosaics covering much of the ceiling.
(19) Patience (After Sebald) will be screened on Friday at Snape Maltings, Suffolk, as part of After Sebald: Place and Re-Enchantment, a weekend exploration of WG Sebald's work.
(20) Aside from the opportunities this rewilding presents for re-enchanting our lives, experience elsewhere in Europe suggests that eco-tourism has a far higher potential for employment, for supporting communities, for keeping the schools and shops and pubs and chapels open than sheep farming does.
Gale
Definition:
(n.) A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.
(n.) A moderate current of air; a breeze.
(n.) A state of excitement, passion, or hilarity.
(v. i.) To sale, or sail fast.
(n.) A song or story.
(v. i.) To sing.
(n.) A plant of the genus Myrica, growing in wet places, and strongly resembling the bayberry. The sweet gale (Myrica Gale) is found both in Europe and in America.
(n.) The payment of a rent or annuity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Emergency teams are still working to reconnect 10,000 households in northern England which lost power in blizzards and gales, after all-night repairs on collapsed cables which left 80,000 cut off.
(2) This galE deletion was recombined into the chromosomal gal operons of S. typhimurium and Salmonella typhi Ty2.
(3) Large parts of the UK have been battered with a second wave of 100mph-plus gales inside 48 hours, causing serious road and rail disruption as the wind toppled a large number of trees.
(4) "The party's response has been absolutely extraordinary," Gale said.
(5) • A Perfectly Good Man by Patrick Gale is published this month by Fourth Estate.
(6) Nerdy Gales (@NerdyGales) The size of the crowd seems to be inducing the #USMNT to play like it's a scrimmage #USAvUKR @KidWeil March 5, 2014 It’s an eerie atmosphere for sure, but there are so many US players on the field who must know they are long shots for the World Cup squad and that this may be their best, if not final chance to get to Brazil.
(7) galE mutants were isolated from three mouse-virulent strains of Salmonella choleraesuis (of group C1, O antigen 6,7) by selection for resistance to 2-deoxygalactose.
(8) These mutants had a galE phenotype, as evidenced by galactose sensitivity, altered LPS when grown in the absence of exogenous galactose, and reduced virulence in infant rats.
(9) When the justice secretary took to the airwaves yesterday , his purpose was more serious – to blow a gale through a generation of failed thinking on prisons, a failure that started the moment Clarke last lost control of penal policy.
(10) Sir Roger Gale, Conservative MP for North Thanet in Kent, whose constituents include Hermitage and Middleton, has lobbied successive Foreign Office ministers for Africa over the years and is incensed that the British government is encouraging British companies to invest in Tanzania despite what happened at Silverdale.
(11) GALE runs on a PC-compatible computer with selected Pioneer LaserDisc players.
(12) The vehicle has been trundling around the large Gale crater looking for evidence that Mars was habitable in the ancient past.
(13) Vaccination with viable cells of an avirulent Salmonella typhimurium galE mutant provides mice with solid specific immunity against subsequent infection with a virulent smooth strain.
(14) The Port of Dover said the weather also brought gale force winds on the Channel while Sunderland's clash with Reading in Wearside was called off due to a waterlogged pitch.
(15) In claims fiercely denied by the party, Gale warns Farage: "There is a core faction associated with the party that is being used as a 'Black Ops' dirty tricks team against targets that include party members."
(16) The seed for the story came after Gale saw his father's photo in an old high school yearbook and wondered if they would have been friends had they been contemporaries.
(17) The unsettled weather looks set to continue throughout this week and into the weekend when strong to gale force southwesterly winds will bring spells of heavy rain across the UK at times, according to the Met Office.
(18) Two men were swept out to sea at Brighton beach in gale-force conditions, while two teenagers remained in hospital after the car they were travelling in collided with a gritter truck in South Ayrshire.
(19) States of emergency have been declared in numerous regions in the North Island, after rivers burst their banks following two days of heavy rain and gale-force winds.
(20) Through Connolly, he met George Orwell and Arthur Koestler , who became regular contributors; in later years, he appointed Eric Newby as the travel editor, persuaded Alan Ross to write on cricket and employed Gavin Young and the brilliant but deeply troubled John Gale, whose Clean Young Englishman is one of the finest English autobiographies.