Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WITCH'-HA-ZEL, n.

1. A species of elm, (Ulmus montana.) – Cyc.
2. The hop-hornbeam, (Carpinus ostrya.) – Lee. The Virginian witch-hazel is the Hamemelis virginica, a shrub which flowers in autumn, when its leaves are falling. – Lee. Bigelow.