What does "hag" mean?
Hag: An ugly old woman.
Additional senses
- 2.A fury; a she-monster. Grashaw.
- 3.(Zoöl.) 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.
- 4.(Zoöl.) The hagdon or shearwater.
- 5.An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair. Blount. Hag moth (Zoöl.), 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.
- 6.To harass; to weary with vexation. How are superstitious men hagged out of their wits with the fancy of omens. L'Estrange.
- 7.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.
- 8.A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut. Dugdale.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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