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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hag \Hag\ (h[a^]g), noun [OE. hagge, hegge, witch, 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. [root]12.]
1. A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard. [Obs.] ''[Silenus] that old hag.'' --Golding.
2. An ugly old woman. --Dryden.
3. A fury; a she-monster. --Crashaw.
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 {Hyperotreta}. 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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hagdon \Hag"don\ (h[a^]g"d[o^]n), noun (Zo["o]l.) One of several species of sea birds of the genus {Puffinus}; esp., {Puffinus major}, the greater shearwarter, and {Puffinus Stricklandi}, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater; -- called also {hagdown}, {haglin}, and {hag}. See {Shearwater}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hag \Hag\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Hagged} (h[a^]gd); 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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hag \Hag\, noun [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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
hag
noun
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "hag": 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
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
HAG, noun An elderly lady whom you do not happen to like; sometimes called, also, a hen, or cat. Old witches, sorceresses, etc., were called hags from the belief that their heads were surrounded by a kind of baleful lumination or nimbus -- hag being the popular name of that peculiar electrical light sometimes observed in the hair. At one time hag was not a word of reproach: Drayton speaks of a "beautiful hag, all smiles," much as Shakespeare said, "sweet wench." It would not now be proper to call your sweetheart a hag -- that compliment is reserved for the use of her grandchildren.
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