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- 1 A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard.
"And that olde hag that with a staffe his staggering lymbes dooth stay"
- 2 A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled. Northern-England
"This said, he led me over hoults and hags; / Through thorns and bushes scant my legs I drew"
- 3 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 wordnet
- 4 An ugly old woman. derogatory
"The elder women were literally "old hags" - lean and shrivelled, and excessively ugly."
- 5 A marshy hollow, especially an area of peat lying lower than surrounding moorland, formed by erosion of a gully or cutting and often having steep edges.
"And they likewise ordained […] that all the warp should be thrown into the Common wayes, to fill up haggs and lakes, where need was, upon a great penalty, where it should ly neer the Common rode."
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- 6 an ugly evil-looking old woman wordnet
- 7 An evil woman. derogatory
"I don't plan to stop drinking. But... I don't wanna forget. I can't turn away anymore. So, if I'm gonna die, well, it might as well be driving my sword through the heart of that murderous hag."
- 8 A woman, particularly one over the age of 30 years. US, derogatory, slang, sometimes
"– What is that hag trend that is going on?"
- 9 A fury; a she-monster.
"Fourth of the cursed knot of hags is she / Or rather all the other three in one; / Hell's shop of slaughter she does oversee, / And still assist the execution"
- 10 A hagfish; one of various eel-like fish of the family Myxinidae, allied to the lamprey, with a suctorial mouth, labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings.
- 11 A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus.
- 12 An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a person's hair. obsolete
"Flamma lambentes (or those we call Haggs) are made of Sweat or some other Vapour issuing out of the Head; a not-unusuall sight amongst us when we ride by night in the Summer time: They are extinguisht, like flames, by shaking the Horse Mains"
- 13 The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.
- 14 Sleep paralysis. slang, uncountable
- 1 To cut or erode (as) a hag (a hollow into moorland).
"hag […] is that part in mosses which is naturally or artificially cut, hollowed, hagged, or hacked; naturally by water runlets forming hollows, and artificially by, among other means, the cutting and removal of peat."
- 2 To harass; to weary with vexation. transitive
"How are Superstitious Men Hagg'd Out of their Wits and Senses, with the Fancy of Omens, Forebodings, Old Wives Tales, and Visions"
Etymology
From Middle English hagge, hegge (“demon, old woman”), shortening of Old English hægtesse, hægtes (“harpy, witch”), from Proto-West Germanic *hagatussjā. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Häkse (“witch”), Dutch heks, German Hexe (“witch”). Doublet of hex.
From Middle English hag (denoting a gap in a cliff), from Old Norse hǫgg (“cut, gap, breach”), derivative of hǫggva (“to hack, hew”). Compare English hew, Old Swedish hug (“blow, stroke”).
From Middle English hag (denoting a gap in a cliff), from Old Norse hǫgg (“cut, gap, breach”), derivative of hǫggva (“to hack, hew”). Compare English hew, Old Swedish hug (“blow, stroke”).
From Middle English haggen, from Proto-Germanic *hag(g)ōnan (compare obsolete Dutch hagen (“to torment, agonize”), Norwegian haga (“to tire, weaken”)).
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