1.  alpine(a = adj.pert) - relating to or characteristic of alps; "alpine sports"

2.  alpine(a = adj.pert) - relating to the Alps and their inhabitants; "Alpine countries, Switzerland, Italy, France, and Germany"

3.  alpine(s = adj.all) - living or growing above the timber line; "alpine flowers"

1.  Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants. [1913 Webster]

2.  Like the Alps; lofty. Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

alpine, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 a of or relating to high mountains. b growing or found on high mountains.
2 (Alpine) of or relating to the Alps.
--n. a plant native or suited to mountain districts.

Etymology:
L Alpinus: see ALP

N  height, altitude, elevation, eminence, pitch, loftiness, sublimity, tallness, stature, procerity, prominence, colossus, giant, grenadier, giraffe, camelopard, mount, mountain, hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap, cape, headland, foreland, promontory, ridge, hog's back, dune, rising ground, vantage ground, down, moor, moorland, Alp, uplands, highlands, heights, knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump, knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole, steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough, escarpment, edge, ledge, brae, dizzy height, tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret, campanile, turret, dome, cupola, skyscraper, pole, pikestaff, maypole, flagstaff, top mast, topgallant mast, ceiling, high water, high tide, flood tide, spring tide, altimetry, batophobia, satellite, spy-in-the-sky, high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall, gigantic, Patagonian, towering, beetling, soaring, hanging (gardens), elevated, upper, highest, high reaching, insessorial, perching, upland, moorland, hilly, knobby, mountainous, alpine, subalpine, heaven kissing, cloudtopt, cloudcapt, cloudtouching, aerial, overhanging, incumbent, overlying, superincumbent, supernatant, superimposed, prominent, tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, lanky, on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead, airwind, upstairs, abovestairs, in the clouds, on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of, over head and ears, breast high, over, upwards, from top to bottom, e meglio cader dalle finistre che dal tetto.

alpine anemone, alpine ash, alpine azalea, alpine bearberry, alpine besseya, alpine celery pine, alpine clover, alpine clubmoss, alpine coltsfoot, alpine enchanter's nightshade, alpine fir, alpine glacier, alpine gold, alpine golden chain, alpine goldenrod, alpine hulsea, alpine lady fern, alpine lift, alpine milk vetch, alpine mouse-ear, alpine salamander, alpine scurvy, alpine sunflower, alpine totara, alpine type of glacier, alpine woodsia

1.  enchant(v = verb.emotion) delight, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport - hold spellbound;
is one way to delight, please
Antonym: disenchant
Derived forms noun enchantment₃, noun enchantment₂
Sample sentences: The good news will enchant her

2.  enchant(v = verb.emotion) becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, entrance, fascinate, trance - attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's hearts"
is one way to appeal, attract
Derived form noun enchantment₁
Sample sentences: The performance is likely to enchant Sue

3.  enchant(v = verb.communication) bewitch, glamour, hex, jinx, witch - cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something;
is one way to becharm, charm
Derived forms noun enchanter₁, noun enchantment₃, noun enchantment₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody

1.  To charm by sorcery; to act on by enchantment; to get control of by magical words and rites. [1913 Webster]
"And now about the caldron sing,
Like elves and fairies in a ring,
Enchanting all that you put in." [1913 Webster]
"He is enchanted, cannot speak." [1913 Webster]

2.  To delight in a high degree; to charm; to enrapture; as, music enchants the ear. [1913 Webster]
"Arcadia was the charmed circle where all his spirits forever should be enchanted."

enchant, v.tr.
1 charm, delight.
2 bewitch.

Derivative:
enchantedly adv. enchanting adj. enchantingly adv. enchantment n.

Etymology:
ME f. F enchanter f. L incantare (as IN-(2), canere cant- sing)

VB  cause pleasure, produce pleasure, create pleasure, give pleasure, afford pleasure, procure pleasure, offer pleasure, present pleasure, yield pleasure, please, charm, delight, becharm, imparadise, gladden, take, captivate, fascinate, enchant, entrance, enrapture, transport, bewitch, enravish, bless, beatify, satisfy, gratify, desire, slake, satiate, quench, indulge, humor, flatter, tickle, tickle the palate, regale, refresh, enliven, treat, amuse, take one's fancy, tickle one's fancy, hit one's fancy, meet one's wishes, win the heart, gladden the heart, rejoice the heart, warm the cockles of the heart, do one's heart good, attract, allure, stimulate, interest, make things pleasant, popularize, gild the pill, sugar-coat the pill, sweeten.

VB  practice sorcery, cast a nativity, conjure, exorcise, charm, enchant, bewitch, bedevil, hoodoo, voodoo, entrance, mesmerize, magnetize, fascinate, taboo, wave a wand, rub the ring, rub the lamp, cast a spell, call up spirits, call up spirits from the vasty deep, raise spirits from the dead.

   nightshade(n = noun.plant) - any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit;
is a kind of ligneous plant, woody plant
is a member of genus solanum, solanum
has particulars: kangaroo apple, poroporo, solanum aviculare, ball nettle, ball nightshade, bull nettle, horse nettle, solanum carolinense, bittersweet, bittersweet nightshade, climbing nightshade, deadly nightshade, poisonous nightshade, solanum dulcamara, woody nightshade, prairie berry, purple nightshade, silver-leaved nettle, silver-leaved nightshade, silverleaf nightshade, solanum elaeagnifolium, trompillo, white horse nettle, african holly, solanum giganteum, black nightshade, common nightshade, poison-berry, poisonberry, solanum nigrum, jerusalem cherry, madeira winter cherry, solanum pseudocapsicum, winter cherry, buffalo bur, solanum rostratum

   A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. [1913 Webster]

nightshade, n. any of various poisonous plants, esp. of the genus Solanum, including S. nigrum (black nightshade) with black berries, and S. dulcamara (woody nightshade) with red berries.

Idiom:
deadly nightshade = BELLADONNA.

Etymology:
OE nihtscada app. formed as NIGHT + SHADE, prob. with ref. to its poisonous properties

N  bane, curse, evil, hurtfulness, painfulness, scourge, damnosa hereditas, white elephant, sting, fang, thorn, tang, bramble, brier, nettle, poison, toxin, teratogen, leaven, virus venom, arsenic, antimony, tartar emetic, strychnine, nicotine, miasma, miasm, mephitis, malaria, azote, sewer gas, pest, Albany hemp, arsenious oxide, arsenious acid, bichloride of mercury, carbonic acid, carbonic gas, choke damp, corrosive sublimate, fire damp, hydrocyanic acid, cyanide, Prussic acid, hydrogen cyanide, marsh gas, nux vomica, ratsbane, hemlock, hellebore, nightshade, belladonna, henbane, aconite, banewort, bhang, ganja, hashish, Upas tree, Toxline (online), rust, worm, helminth, moth, moth and rust, fungus, mildew, dry rot, canker, cankerworm, cancer, torpedo, viper, demon, toxicology, baneful, poisonous, phr, bibere venenum in auro, Contingent Subservience.

alpine enchanter's nightshade, ball nightshade, bittersweet nightshade, black nightshade, climbing nightshade, common nightshade, deadly nightshade, enchanter's nightshade, poisonous nightshade, purple nightshade, silver-leaved nightshade, silverleaf nightshade, stinking nightshade, woody nightshade