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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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Etymology of 'Hag'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hag" Quotes from Famous Books

... day by the most rabid of Scottish provincialists. In the last scene of "The Malcontent" a court lady says to an infamous old hanger-on of the court: "And is not Signor St. Andrew a gallant fellow now?" to which the old hag replies: "Honor and he agree as well together as a satin suit and woollen stockings." The famous passage in the comedy which appeared a year later must have been far less offensive to the most nervous patriotism than this; and the impunity of so gross ...

— The Age of Shakespeare • Algernon Charles Swinburne

... exceedingly bad taste to array her in an old calico gown bought from an emigrant woman, instead of the neat and graceful tunic of whitened deerskin worn ordinarily by the squaws. The moving spirit of the establishment, in more senses than one, was a hideous old hag of eighty. Human imagination never conceived hobgoblin or witch more ugly than she. You could count all her ribs through the wrinkles of the leathery skin that covered them. Her withered face more resembled an old skull than the countenance ...

— The Oregon Trail • Francis Parkman, Jr.

... ambition; other stimulants supplied the place, and kept up the intoxicating dream, the fever and the madness of his early impressions. Liberty (the philosopher's and the poet's bride) had fallen a victim, meanwhile, to the murderous practices of the hag, Legitimacy. Proscribed by court-hirelings, too romantic for the herd of vulgar politicians, our enthusiast stood at bay, and at last turned on the pivot of a subtle casuistry to the unclean side: but his discursive reason would not let him trammel himself into a poet-laureate or stamp-distributor, ...

— The Spirit of the Age - Contemporary Portraits • William Hazlitt

... he turned her limp body so that she lay upon her back. She was quite dead, but he was neither startled nor horrified; he was bitterly disappointed, and again and again he ground his heel into the thick Sine carpet under his feet. What was it to him whether this hideous old hag were dead in one way or another? She had died with her secret. There she lay in her shapeless bag-like gown of snuff-colored stuff, under the brilliant lights and the gorgeous mirrors, upon the delicate ...

— Paul Patoff • F. Marion Crawford

... devil didn't she? I shall sack that woman. Isabel hasn't a chance to get well with a mischievous old hag like that always ...

— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell

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