Hag
[hæg] or [hæɡ]
Definition
(n.) A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard.
(n.) An ugly old woman.
(n.) A fury; a she-monster.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The hagdon or shearwater.
(n.) An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
(v. t.) To harass; to weary with vexation.
(n.) A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or inclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
(n.) A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.
Checker: Shelia
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Fury, beldam, she-monster, Jezebel, virago, vixen, ugly old woman.
Checked by Brits
Definition
n. (Scot.) any broken ground in a moss or bog: brushwood to be cut down.
n. an ugly old woman originally a witch: one of the Round Mouths allied to the lamprey.—adj. Hag′gish hag-like.—adv. Hag′gishly.—adj. Hag′-rid′den ridden by witches as a horse: troubled by nightmare.—ns. Hag′-seed a witch's offspring; Hag′ship the personality of a hag; Hag′weed the common broom a broomstick being usually bestridden by a witch in her flight through the air.
Typist: Tyler
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. 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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Examples
- She stood there, by that beech-trunk--a hag like one of those who appeared to Macbeth on the heath of Forres. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- My whim is gratified; and now I think Mr. Eshton will do well to put the hag in the stocks to-morrow morning, as he threatened. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It's of a woman; the hag that nursed his mother. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Come back you hag,--come back, Cass! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- You hag, you cat, you dog, you brimstone barker! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Come this way, father, said the old hag, thou art a stranger in this castle, and canst not leave it without a guide. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- That hag Disappointment was greeting her with a grisly All-hail, and her soul rejected the intimacy. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Death on the cards, love in the stars, and the muttered prophecies of crouching hags, terrified at the omen of flying bat, of shrieking night-bird. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Looking cautiously round, to ascertain that they were not overheard, the two hags cowered nearer to the fire, and chuckled heartily. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The pale lunar touches which make beauties of hags lent divinity to this face, already beautiful. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Edited by Georgina