Hag

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An old woman considered ugly or frightful.
  • n. A witch; a sorceress.
  • n. Obsolete A female demon.
  • n. A hagfish.
  • n. Chiefly British A boggy area; a quagmire.
  • n. Chiefly British A spot in boggy land that is softer or more solid than the surrounding area.
  • n. Chiefly British A cutting in a peat bog.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
  • n. A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.
  • 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 Hyperotreti. 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.
  • n. The fruit of the hagberry.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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 Hyperotreta. 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. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A witch; a sorceress; an enchantress; very rarely, a male witch; wizard; magician.
  • n. A repulsive, vicious, or malicious old woman.
  • n. A cyclostomous or marsipobranchiate fish, Myxine glutinosa, or glutinous hag, related to the lamprey, type of the family Myxinidæ and suborder Hyperotreta. See these technical words.
  • n. A white mist; phosphoric light; an appearance of light or fire on horses' manes or men's hair.
  • To vex; harass; torment.
  • n. A small wood or wooded inclosure.
  • To cut; hack; chop; hew: same as hack.
  • To haggle or dispute.
  • n. A stroke with an ax or a knife; a notch; a cut; a hack.
  • n. A certain part of a wood intended to be cut.
  • n. One cutting or felling of a certain quantity of wood; also, the wood so cut.
  • n. Branches lopped off for firewood; brushwood.
  • n. A quagmire or pit in mossy ground; any broken ground in a bog.
  • n. a rabble; rag, tag, and bobtail.
  • n. A bachelor; a fellow; a man.
  • n. A kind of boat. See the quotation.
  • n. A bird: same as hagden.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an ugly evil-looking old woman
  • n. 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
  • Antonym
    beauty   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    old woman   
    Variant
    hagfish    borer    slime eel    sucker    sleepmarken   
    Form
    hagged    hagging   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    fury    she-monster    harass    quagmire    beldam    beldame    witch    harridan    ugly person   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ag    Bragg    ag    bag    bagge    brag    dag    drag    fag    flag   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    crone    bitch    wretch    fiend    gnome    witch    wench    elf    brat    ogre