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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]:
Borer \Bor"er\, noun
1. One that bores; an instrument for boring.
2. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus {Teredo} and allies, which burrows in wood. See {Teredo}. (b) Any bivalve mollusk ({Saxicava}, {Lithodomus}, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances. (c) One of the larv[ae] of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See {Apple borer}, under {Apple}. (d) The hagfish ({Myxine}).
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
borer
noun
1: a drill for penetrating rock [syn: {bore bit}, {rock drill}, {stone drill}]
2: any of various insects or larvae or mollusks that bore into wood [syn: {woodborer}]
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