About The Word Hag
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What's The Definition Of Hag?
[n] 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
[n] an ugly evil-looking old woman Synonyms | Synonyms for Hag: beldam | beldame | crone | hagfish | slime eels | witch Related Terms | Find terms related to Hag: baboon | bag | bat | battle-ax | beldam | biddy | bitch-kitty | blemish | blot | coven | crone | dame | dog | dowager | drab | enchantress | eyesore | fishwife | fright | frump | fury | gammer | gargoyle | gorgon | grandam | grandmother | granny | grimalkin | harpy | harridan | hellcat | hellhag | hex | Jezebel | lamia | mess | monster | monstrosity | no beauty | old battle-ax | old dame | old girl | old granny | old lady | old trot | old wife | old woman | scarecrow | shamaness | she-devil | she-wolf | shrew | sight | siren | slattern | sorceress | teratism | termagant | tigress | trot | ugly duckling | virago | vixen | war-horse | Weird Sisters | wildcat | witch | witchwife | witchwoman See Also | agnathan | eptatretus | family Myxinidae | jawless fish | jawless vertebrate | Myxine glutinosa | Myxinidae | Myxinikela siroka | old woman Hag In Webster's Dictionary \Hag\, n. [OE. hagge, hegge, with, hag, AS. h[ae]gtesse;
akin to OHG. hagazussa, G. hexe, D. heks, Dan. hex, Sw.
h["a]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. ?.]
1. A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard. [Obs.]
``[Silenus] that old hag.'' --Golding.
2. An ugly old woman.
3. A fury; a she-monster. --Grashaw.
4. (Zo["o]l.) 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 Hyperotpeta. Called
also {hagfish}, {borer}, {slime eel}, {sucker}, and
{sleepmarken}.
5. (Zo["o]l.) The hagdon or shearwater.
6. An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a
man's hair. --Blount.
{Hag moth} (Zo["o]l.), 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.
\Hag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hagged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Hagging}.] To harass; to weary with vexation. How are superstitious men hagged out of their wits with the fancy of omens. --L'Estrange. \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. This said, he led me over hoults and hags; Through thorns and bushes scant my legs I drew. --Fairfax. 2. A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut. --Dugdale. |
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