| charm | |
| 1. n. An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation). | |
| a charm against evil | |
| It works like a charm. | |
| 2. n. The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration; often constructed in the plural. | |
| He had great personal charm. | |
| She tried to win him over with her charms. | |
| 3. n. A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer. | |
| She wears a charm bracelet on her wrist. | |
| 4. n. (physics) A quantum number of hadrons determined by the quantity of charm quarks & antiquarks. | |
| 5. n. (finance) A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the instantaneous rate of change of delta with respect to time. | |
| 6. v. To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something. | |
| He charmed her with his dashing tales of his days as a sailor. | |
| 7. v. To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence. | |
| After winning three games while wearing the chain, Dan began to think it had been charmed. | |
| 8. v. To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences. | |
| She led a charmed life. | |
| 9. v. (obsolete, rare) To make music upon. | |
| 10. v. To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe. | |
| 11. n. The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children. | |
| 12. n. A flock, group (especially of finches). | |
