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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



... it that the word signifying "And I will be glorified," occurs in Hag. i. 8 without the letter which is the symbol for five, though it is sounded as if that letter was there? It indicates the absence of five things from the second Temple which were to be found in the first, (1.) The ark, i.e., the mercy-seat of the cherubim; (2.) the fire from heaven upon the ...
— Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and - Kabbala • Various
... for the scene that met us when we drove into the porte cochere. The place seemed deserted, not a servant was to be seen but one old wrinkled hag, who hobbled up to the door saying something in Dutch that made Madame van Hunker clasp her hands and exclaim: 'All fled! Oh, what ...
— Stray Pearls • Charlotte M. Yonge
... John Manning lay. An unkempt and hideous old crone as black as night opened the door for him. He left in the hall his hat and overcoat and a little square box he had brought in his hand; and then he followed the ebony hag up-stairs to Colonel Manning's room. Here at the door she left him, after giving a sharp knock. A weak ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 3 • Various
... his friend's face and went on. "You look horrified, and the thing is horrible. But other things are horrible, too. If some obscure man had been hag-ridden by a blackmailer and had his family life ruined, you wouldn't think the murder of his persecutor the most inexcusable of murders. Is it any worse when a whole great nation is set free as well ...
— The Man Who Knew Too Much • G.K. Chesterton
... low fire stirring her kettle and muttering incantations. She read such amazing things in the extended palms that the Truth Seekers' eyes began to pop out of their heads. The grinning, toothless old hag (Nyoda had blackened all her teeth but one), was so realistic that they had to look closely to make sure that it was their beloved friend ...
— The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods - Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping • Hildegard G. Frey


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