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Definition of Hag
Pronunciation: hăgd | n. | 1. | A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard. | | 2. | An ugly old woman. | | 3. | A fury; a she-monster. | | 4. | (Zool.) 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. | (Zool.) The hagdon or shearwater. | | 6. | An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair. | | v. t. | 1. | To harass; to weary with vexation. | | n. | 1. | A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or inclosed for felling, or which has been felled. | | 2. | A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut. |
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Jezebel, Weird Sisters, baboon, bag, bat, battle-ax, biddy, bitch-kitty, blemish, blot, coven, dame, dog, dowager, drab, enchantress, eyesore, fishwife, fright, frump, fury, gammer, gargoyle, gorgon, grandam, grandmother, 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, war-horse, wildcat, witch, witchwife, witchwoman
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