HAG, 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.

Source: THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
 

Hag \Hag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hagged (h[a^]gd); p. pr. & vb. n. Hagging.]

To harass; to weary with vexation. [1913 Webster]

How are superstitious men hagged out of their wits with the fancy of omens. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

Hag \Hag\, n. [Scot. hag to cut; cf. E. hack.]

1. A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or inclosed for felling, or which has been felled. [1913 Webster]

This said, he led me over hoults and hags; Through thorns and bushes scant my legs I drew. --Fairfax. [1913 Webster]

2. A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut. --Dugdale. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

Hag \Hag\ (h[a^]g), n. [OE. hagge, hegge, witch, hag, AS. h[ae]gtesse; akin to OHG. hagazussa, G. hexe, D. heks, Dan. hex, Sw. h[aum]xa. The first part of the word is prob. the same as E. haw, hedge, and the orig. meaning was perh., wood woman, wild woman. [root]12.]

1. A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard. [Obs.]

"[Silenus] that old hag." --Golding. [1913 Webster]

2. An ugly old woman. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

3. A fury; a she-monster. --Crashaw. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

5. (Zool.) The hagdon or shearwater. [1913 Webster]

6. An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair. --Blount. [1913 Webster]

Hag moth (Zool.), a moth (Phobetron pithecium), the larva of which has curious side appendages, and feeds on fruit trees.

Hag's tooth (Naut.), an ugly irregularity in the pattern of matting or pointing. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

Hagdon \Hag"don\ (h[a^]g"d[o^]n), n. (Zool.) One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus; esp., Puffinus major, the greater shearwarter, and Puffinus Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater; -- called also hagdown, haglin, and hag. See Shearwater. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

69 Moby Thesaurus words for "hag": Jezebel, Weird Sisters, baboon, bag, bat, battle-ax, beldam, biddy, bitch-kitty, blemish, blot, coven, crone, dame, dog, dowager, drab, enchantress, eyesore, fishwife, fright, frump, fury, gammer, gargoyle, gorgon, grandam, grandmother, granny, 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, vixen, war-horse, wildcat, witch, witchwife, witchwoman

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

hag

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

Hagdon \Hag"don\, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus; esp., P. major, the greater shearwarter, and P. Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater; -- called also hagdown, haglin, and hag. See Shearwater.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Hag \Hag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Hagging.]

To harass; to weary with vexation.

How are superstitious men hagged out of their wits with the fancy of omens. --L'Estrange.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Hag \Hag\, n. [Scot. hag to cut; cf. E. hack.]

1. A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or inclosed for felling, or which has been felled.

This said, he led me over hoults and hags; Through thorns and bushes scant my legs I drew. --Fairfax.

2. A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut. --Dugdale.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Hag \Hag\, n. [OE. hagge, hegge, with, hag, AS. h[ae]gtesse; akin to OHG. hagazussa, G. hexe, D. heks, Dan. hex, Sw. h["a]xa. The first part of the word is prob. the same as E. haw, hedge, and the orig. meaning was perh., wood woman, wild woman. ?.]

1. A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard. [Obs.]

``[Silenus] that old hag.'' --Golding.

2. An ugly old woman.

3. A fury; a she-monster. --Grashaw.

4. (Zo["o]l.) 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.

5. (Zo["o]l.) The hagdon or shearwater.

6. An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair. --Blount.

Hag moth (Zo["o]l.), a moth (Phobetron pithecium), the larva of which has curious side appendages, and feeds on fruit trees.

Hag's tooth (Naut.), an ugly irregularity in the pattern of matting or pointing.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)