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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

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]


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. [1913 Webster] How are superstitious men hagged out of their wits with the fancy of omens. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
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. [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]
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. [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]
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. [1913 Webster]
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.