Hag /(hăg)/
Hag
n.
- A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard. [Obs.]
- An ugly old woman.
- A fury; a she-monster.
- 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. (Zool.)
- The hagdon or shearwater. (Zool.)
- An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
Phrases & Compounds
- Hag moth
- a moth (Phobetron pithecium), the larva of which has curious side appendages, and feeds on fruit trees.
- Hag's tooth
- an ugly irregularity in the pattern of matting or pointing.
Hag
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Hagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Hagging
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To harass; to weary with vexation.
How are superstitious men hagged out of their wits with the fancy of omens.
Hag
n.
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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.
- A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.