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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HAG, n.
1. An ugly old woman; as an old hag of threescore.
2. A witch; a sorceress; an enchantress.
3. A fury; a she-monster.
4. A cartilaginous fish, the Gastrobranchus, which enters other fishes and devours them. It is about five or six inches long, and resembles a small eel. It is allied to the lamprey.
5. Appearances of light and fire on horses' manes or men's hair, were formerly called hags.
HAG, v.t. To harass; to torment.
1. To tire; to weary with vexation.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an ugly evil-looking old woman [syn: hag, beldam, beldame, witch, crone]
2: eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies [syn: hagfish, hag, slime eels]

Merriam Webster's

abbreviation Haggai

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English hagge demon, old woman Date: 14th century 1. an ugly, slatternly, or evil-looking old woman 2. archaic a. a female demon b. an evil or frightening spirit ; hobgoblin 3. witch • haggish adjective II. noun Etymology: Scots, break in a moor, from Old Norse h?gg cut, cleft; akin to Old English h?awan to hew Date: 1662 1. British quagmire, bog 2. British a firm spot in a bog

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. 1 an ugly old woman. 2 a witch. 3 = HAGFISH. Derivatives: haggish adj. Etymology: ME hegge, hagge, perh. f. OE hægtesse, OHG hagazissa, of unkn. orig. 2. n. Sc. & N.Engl. 1 a soft place on a moor. 2 a firm place in a bog. Etymology: ON högg gap, orig. 'cutting blow', rel. to HEW

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hagdon Hag"don, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus; esp., P. major, the greater shearwarter, and P. Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater; -- called also hagdown, haglin, and hag. See Shearwater.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hag Hag, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Hagging.] To harass; to weary with vexation. How are superstitious men hagged out of their wits with the fancy of omens. --L'Estrange.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hag Hag, n. [Scot. hag to cut; cf. E. hack.] 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. --Fairfax. 2. A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut. --Dugdale.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hag Hag, n. [OE. hagge, hegge, with, hag, AS. h[ae]gtesse; akin to OHG. hagazussa, G. hexe, D. heks, Dan. hex, Sw. h["a]xa. The first part of the word is prob. the same as E. haw, hedge, and the orig. meaning was perh., wood woman, wild woman. ?.] 1. A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard. [Obs.] ``[Silenus] that old hag.'' --Golding. 2. An ugly old woman. 3. A fury; a she-monster. --Grashaw. 4. (Zo["o]l.) 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. 5. (Zo["o]l.) The hagdon or shearwater. 6. An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair. --Blount. Hag moth (Zo["o]l.), 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(hags) If someone refers to a woman as a hag, they mean that she is ugly, old, and unpleasant. (OFFENSIVE) N-COUNT [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Fury, beldam, she-monster, Jezebel, virago, vixen, ugly old woman.

Moby Thesaurus

Jezebel, Weird Sisters, baboon, bag, bat, battle-ax, beldam, biddy, bitch-kitty, blemish, blot, coven, crone, dame, dog, dowager, drab, enchantress, eyesore, fishwife, fright, frump, fury, gammer, gargoyle, gorgon, grandam, grandmother, granny, grimalkin, harpy, harridan, hellcat, hellhag, hex, lamia, mess, monster, monstrosity, no beauty, old battle-ax, old dame, old girl, old granny, old lady, old trot, old wife, old woman, scarecrow, shamaness, she-devil, she-wolf, shrew, sight, siren, slattern, sorceress, teratism, termagant, tigress, trot, ugly duckling, virago, vixen, war-horse, wildcat, witch, witchwife, witchwoman