Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hag"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

hag
n 1: an ugly evil-looking old woman [syn: {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},
{slime eels}]


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