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noun 
  1. (countable) A charm affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are.
  2. Witchcraft; magic; a spell.
  3. A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
  4. Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, through which it appears delusively magnified or glorified.
  5. (uncountable) Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal)
Etymology: From Scottish (term, gramarye, , magic, enchantment, spell).The Scottish term is either from Ancient Greek (term, sc=polytonic, , tr=grammírion, , gram), the weight unit of ingredients used to make magic potions, or alt. of (term, grammar, , any sort of scholarship, especially occult learning), from (term, grammatica), from (term, , tr=grammatike tekhne, , art of letters)


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