'Hag' definitions:

Definition of 'hag'

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noun
An ugly evil-looking old woman [syn: hag, beldam, beldame, witch, crone]
noun
Eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies [syn: hagfish, hag, slime eels]

Definition of 'Hag'

From: GCIDE
  • Hag \Hag\ (h[a^]g), n. [OE. hagge, hegge, witch, hag, AS. h[ae]gtesse; akin to OHG. hagazussa, G. hexe, D. heks, Dan. hex, Sw. h[aum]xa. The first part of the word is prob. the same as E. haw, hedge, and the orig. meaning was perh., wood woman, wild woman. [root]12.]
  • 1. A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard. [Obs.] "[Silenus] that old hag." --Golding. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. An ugly old woman. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A fury; a she-monster. --Crashaw. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Zool.) An eel-like marine marsipobranch ({Myxine glutinosa}), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotreta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Zool.) The hagdon or shearwater. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair. --Blount. [1913 Webster]
  • Hag moth (Zool.), a moth (Phobetron pithecium), the larva of which has curious side appendages, and feeds on fruit trees.
  • Hag's tooth (Naut.), an ugly irregularity in the pattern of matting or pointing. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Hag'

From: GCIDE
  • Hag \Hag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hagged (h[a^]gd); p. pr. & vb. n. Hagging.] To harass; to weary with vexation. [1913 Webster]
  • How are superstitious men hagged out of their wits with the fancy of omens. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Hag'

From: GCIDE
  • Hag \Hag\, n. [Scot. hag to cut; cf. E. hack.]
  • 1. A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or inclosed for felling, or which has been felled. [1913 Webster]
  • This said, he led me over hoults and hags; Through thorns and bushes scant my legs I drew. --Fairfax. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut. --Dugdale. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'hag'

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