Definition of hag Hag

/hæˈg/ - [hatg] - hag

We found 25 definitions of hag from 6 different sources.

What does hag mean?

Noun Plural: hags
hag - an ugly evil-looking old woman
		beldam, beldame, witch, crone
hag - 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
		hagfish, slime eels
		agnathan, jawless fish, jawless vertebrate eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms
		family myxinidae, myxinidae slime-producing marine animals: hagfishes
		myxine glutinosa typical hagfish
		eptatretus a fossil hagfish of the genus Eptatretus

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hag (Noun)
A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard.
hag (Noun)
An ugly old woman.
hag (Noun)
A fury; a she-monster.
hag (Noun)
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 Hyperotreti. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel , sucker, and sleepmarken.
hag (Noun)
The hagdon or shearwater.
hag (Noun)
An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
hag (Noun)
The fruit of the hagberry.
hag (Noun)
A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
hag (Noun)
A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.
hag (Verb)
To harass; to weary with vexation.

hag (n.)
A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard.
hag (n.)
An ugly old woman.
hag (n.)
A fury; a she-monster.
hag (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.
hag (n.)
The hagdon or shearwater.
hag (n.)
An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
hag (v. t.)
To harass; to weary with vexation.
hag (n.)
A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or inclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
hag (n.)
A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.

hag
hag, 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. [A.S. hægtesse, a witch; Ger. hexe.]
hag
hag, n. (Scot.) any broken ground in a moss or bog: brushwood to be cut down

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