Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CHARM, v.t.

1. To subdue or control by incantation or secret influence. I will send serpents among you … which will not be charmed. – Jer. viii.
2. To subdue by secret power, especially by that which pleases and delights the mind; to allay or appease. Music the fiercest grief can charm. – Pope.
3. To give exquisite pleasure to the mind or senses; to delight; as, we were charmed with the conversation. The aerial songster charms us with her melodious notes. – Anon.
4. To fortify with charms against evil. I have a charmed life, which must not yield. – Shak. [Not in use.]
5. To make powerful by charms. – Johnson.
6. To summon by incantation.– Shak. Johnson.
7. To temper agreeably. – Spenser.