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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



... "Banks of Air." His own business was based on a "Bank of Air," "wind-capital," as Cadell, Constable's partner, calls it, and the bubble was just about to burst, though Scott had no apprehension of financial ruin. A horrid power is visible in Scott's second picture of la mauvaise pauvre, the hag who despises and curses the givers of "handfuls of coals and of rice;" his first he drew in the witches of "The Bride of Lammermoor." He has himself indicated his desire to press hard on the vice of gambling, as in "The Fortunes of Nigel." Ruinous at all times and in every shape, gambling, ...
— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott
... to be that which you are now!" pursued the hag, still attentively reading the lines ...
— Capitola's Peril - A Sequel to 'The Hidden Hand' • Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth
... unintelligible, and were succeeded by shrill, piercing yells. Just then the crafty squaw, who had taken the necessary precaution to fire the piles, made her way through the throng, and cleared a place for herself in front of the captive. The squalid and withered person of this hag might well have obtained for her the character of possessing more than human cunning. Throwing back her light vestment, she stretched forth her long, skinny arm, in derision, and using the language of the ...
— The Last of the Mohicans • James Fenimore Cooper
... for your papers! Hola! wife!" continued Arroyo, turning to the hag who still stood by the fainting victim, "here's a little work for you, as I am somewhat fatigued. I charge you with making this spy confess who sent him here, and what design he had in coming. Make him speak out whatever way ...
— The Tiger Hunter • Mayne Reid
... "Curse the hag!" he said. "I could have thought of nothing worse! Nothing that was ever said startled me more than her words, and I know that some evil will befall me from her and her spells. She shall have something to remind her ...
— Grettir The Strong - Grettir's Saga • Unknown


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