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Hag   /hæg/   Listen
noun
Hag  n.  
1.
A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard. (Obs.) "(Silenus) that old hag."
2.
An ugly old woman.
3.
A fury; a she-monster.
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.
5.
(Zool.) The hagdon or shearwater.
6.
An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
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.


Hag  n.  
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."
2.
A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.


verb
Hag  v. t.  (past & past part. hagged; pres. part. hagging)  To harass; to weary with vexation. "How are superstitious men hagged out of their wits with the fancy of omens."





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"Hag" Quotes from Famous Books



... of emotion travelled through the woman's body, and she gave utterance to a harsh inarticulate sound. She came confusedly forwards, groping with hands outstretched. Balder, though not wont to fail in courtesy to the sorriest hag, could scarce forbear recoiling; especially because he fancied that an expression of affectionate interest was struggling to get through the scarred incrustation ...
— Idolatry - A Romance • Julian Hawthorne
... so!—the great scholar must be right; so lead the poor creatures to their death! Do you see that group of children and half- grown girls, and, among them, an old, hag-like Indian woman, Tituba by me? Those are the Afflicted Ones. Behold, at this very instant, a proof of Satan's power and malice! Mercy Parris, the minister's daughter, has been smitten by a flash of Martha Carrier's eye, and falls down in the street, writhing ...
— Main Street - (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... la Roche Guyon came forward, very much alarmed. "Run me through the body!" said his Grace, "but the comptroller-general's lady, there, is no other than that old hag of a Margoton who keeps the ——" Here the Duc de la Roche ...
— The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh • William Makepeace Thackeray
... old hag, carrying a basket of water-bottles, "'tis she, and the other is Terere. I lived with them once at Tutuila. She who is now made a wife and looketh so good and holy went away but a year ago with the captain of a ship—a pig of a German—and now, ...
— The Ebbing Of The Tide - South Sea Stories - 1896 • Louis Becke
... rattlesnake, and draggled hair coloured like the moss upon an aged fir, stood by the spit, which every few moments she turned. Silent Poll had some lard in a cup, and a small quantity of this she put upon the meat each time that the hag turned the spit. Nancy extended a sort of camp-table and upon it placed the drinking vessels; and Roland perceived that these lawless persons lived in ...
— The Four Canadian Highwaymen • Joseph Edmund Collins


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