Cryptic crossword clue
Short period of enchantment

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SPELL

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What does SPELL mean?

SPELL noun
  1. Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
  2. A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
  3. Speech, discourse.
SPELL verb
  1. To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
SPELL verb
  1. To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort.
  2. (sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
  3. To be able to write or say the letters that form words.
  4. Of letters: to compose (a word).
  5. (with “out”) To clarify; to explain in detail.
  6. To indicate that (some event) will occur.
  7. To constitute; to measure.
  8. To speak, to declaim.
  9. To tell; to relate; to teach.
SPELL noun
  1. A shift (of work); a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
  2. A definite period (of work or other activity).
  3. An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.
  4. A period of rest; time off.
  5. A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
  6. An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
SPELL verb
  1. To work in place of (someone).
  2. To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.
  3. To rest from work for a time.
SPELL noun
  1. A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
  2. The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.

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