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widdershins

Word definitions for widdershins in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1510s, chiefly Scottish, originally "contrary to the course of the sun or a clock" (movement in this direction being considered unlucky), probably from Middle Low German weddersinnes , literally "against the way" (i.e. "in the opposite direction"), from ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Widdershins may refer to: Widdershins , counterclockwise (anticlockwise) when referred to as unlucky Widdershins , 1911 collection of ghost stories by Oliver Onions Widdershins, LLC , a New Jersey event management company Widdershins (novel) , 2006 fantasy ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. 1 (context obsolete English) The wrong way. 2 (rft-sense) anticlockwise, counter-clockwise.

Usage examples of widdershins.

Torgon himself took up a bowl with a leafy aspergillum and began circling the altar widdershins, sprinkling it and the bull with aspersions of water infused with mistletoe berries.

Mr Widdershins acted for the defendants and Mr Fescue had been instructed by Mr Gibling and Mr Gibling.

It was granted and was spent in exultation by Mr Fescue and Mr Gibling and Lockhart, and in acrimonious arguments by Mr Widdershins and Miss Goldring.

He kept on walking, reversing the spin from sunwise to widdershins by changing hands again behind his back.

The balance was spinning like a whirling dervish, widdershins instead of clockwise, so fast it just became a blur.

He screamed again, yanked at his reins, and his horse went widdershins like a puppy chasing its tail.

Mr Widdershins doubted it but, since he was being paid to conduct the defence, he saw no good reason to deprive himself of the financial remuneration a prolonged case was bound to bring him.

Mr Widdershins, looking for some ray of hope in an otherwise hopeless case.

Below her Mr Widdershins and Mr Shortstead both covered their eyes with their hands.

Each pair circled widdershins around its center without getting closer.

Because his left ferrule was leading, Cashel backpedaled and brought his right arm around widdershins, catching Manza on the left hip and flinging him into Enfero.

He fed the staff around his body sunwise, then widdershins, and when he had it around in front of him again he spun it between his legs and caught it over his head.

Cashel had his staff spinning at a moderate rate, alternating sunwise circles and widdershins to loosen all his muscles against the time he needed their full strength.

Witchland booths and went widdershins round the wrastling ground and so returned silently whence she came.

Witches, and going widdershins round about the wrastling ground returned on silent wing whence she came.