Charm \Charm\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Charmed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Charming}.] [Cf. F. charmer. See {Charm}, n.] 1. To make music upon; to tune. [Obs. & R.]
Here we our slender pipes may safely charm. --Spenser.
2. To subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to affect by magic.
No witchcraft charm thee! --Shak.
3. To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
Music the fiercest grief can charm. --Pope.
4. To attract irresistibly; to delight exceedingly; to enchant; to fascinate.
They, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear. --Milton.
5. To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences; as, a charmed life.
I, in my own woe charmed, Could not find death. --Shak.
More than a quarter-century has passed since Kennedy and his sister, Caroline, now 30, charmed the nation with their Oval Office shenanigans.
The particles are the strange and charmed quarks, and two leptons named muons and muon neutrinos.
Even cows are said to find it soothing, while Brahms's spider was literally moved - charmed down its thread by the composer's harmonies and sent scuttling up again by his dissonances. Various solutions to the riddle have been attempted.
I did not stay long enough in Lisbon to explore it so maybe I did not give myself the chance to be charmed.
Rented from her Kentucky master in 1835, she charmed the crowds until her death a year later.
We are simply badly governed." Gesturing and mixing humor with serious arguments, Walesa charmed the crowd and was frequently interrupted by applause.
But her witty address, a mixture of disarming humor and candid advice about not letting careers crowd out family, charmed the women graduates, who gave a tumultuous welcome to both Mrs. Bush and Raisa Gorbachev.
"As I look back, I've lived a charmed life," Wilder said at Monday's Oscar show.
The redoubtable Sir David Attenborough charmed us with his grand series "Life on Earth" and "The Living Planet."
World chess champion Gary Kasparov charmed a Bronx gymnasium full of schoolchildren Monday and then promptly beat the pawns off more than 50 of them at once.
At the same time, the charmed status of pharmaceuticals groups looks like coming to an end, as investors begin to switch into cyclical stocks and drugs profits growth slows due to world-wide efforts by governments to control healthcare spending.
I loved the sextet from Napoli, done with southern vivacity, and was charmed by Sandrine Henault's exquisite feet in the Flower Festival in Genzano duet: every step was diamond-cut.
A quarter century after she first charmed the hearts of little girls in the U.S., Barbie has been selling like chapatis this summer in New Delhi, Bombay and Calcutta.
He charmed an audience of 850 with self-deprecating humor and strong opinions about the movie industry today.
Some of the more conservative delegates were not charmed by New Orleans' tolerance for the weird, the drunken and the sexy.
Now it seems that any piece from a Symonds collector or collection is charmed and destined for great heights. The Messer sale was a turning point.
When announcement day, Jan. 22, finally arrived, Mr. Kapor charmed a group of about 30 reporters at a press conference in the cafeteria.