'Hagfish' definitions:

Definition of 'hagfish'

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 'Hagfish'

From: GCIDE

Hagfish \Hag"fish`\(-f[i^]sh`),n.(Zo["o]l.) See Hag, 4. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'hagfish'

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]