Noun: hex heks
- An evil spell
"a witch put a hex on his whole family";
- jinx, curse, whammy, mozz [Austral, informal]
- Cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something
"The old woman was accused of hexing the village";
- bewitch, glamour, witch, enchant, jinx
- Of or pertaining to a number system having 16 as its base
"A much better way of writing binary values when you want to work with the bits is to express them as hex numbers";
- hexadecimal
Derived forms: hexing, hexes, hexed
Type of: becharm [archaic], charm, magic spell, magical spell, spell
Encyclopedia: Hex