[syn: hagfish, hag, slime eels]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Hag \Hag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hagged (h[a^]gd); p. pr. & vb.
n. Hagging.]
To harass; to weary with vexation.
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How are superstitious men hagged out of their wits with
the fancy of omens. --L'Estrange.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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This said, he led me over hoults and hags;
Through thorns and bushes scant my legs I drew.
--Fairfax.
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2. A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.
--Dugdale.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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2. An ugly old woman. --Dryden.
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3. A fury; a she-monster. --Crashaw.
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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.
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5. (Zool.) The hagdon or shearwater.
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6. An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a
man's hair. --Blount.
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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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Hagdon \Hag"don\ (h[a^]g"d[o^]n), n. (Zool.)
One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus;
esp., Puffinus major, the greater shearwarter, and
Puffinus Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater;
-- called also hagdown, haglin, and hag. See
Shearwater.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
hag
n 1: an ugly evil-looking old woman [syn: hag, beldam,
beldame, witch, crone]
2: 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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "hag":
Jezebel, Weird Sisters, 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, 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,
wildcat, witch, witchwife, witchwoman
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):
HAG, n. An elderly lady whom you do not happen to like; sometimes
called, also, a hen, or cat. Old witches, sorceresses, etc., were
called hags from the belief that their heads were surrounded by a kind
of baleful lumination or nimbus -- hag being the popular name of that
peculiar electrical light sometimes observed in the hair. At one time
hag was not a word of reproach: Drayton speaks of a "beautiful hag,
all smiles," much as Shakespeare said, "sweet wench." It would not
now be proper to call your sweetheart a hag -- that compliment is
reserved for the use of her grandchildren.