Hag

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun An ugly old woman.

II. Hag ·noun A fury; a she-monster.

III. Hag ·noun The hagdon or shearwater.

IV. Hag ·noun A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard.

V. Hag ·noun A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.

VI. Hag ·vt To Harass; to weary with vexation.

VII. Hag ·noun An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.

VIII. Hag ·noun A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or inclosed for felling, or which has been felled.

IX. Hag ·noun 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.

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