hag

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. An old woman considered ugly or frightful.
2. n. A witch; a sorceress.
3. n. Obsolete A female demon.
4. n. A hagfish.
5. n. Chiefly British A boggy area; a quagmire.
6. n. Chiefly British A spot in boggy land that is softer or more solid than the surrounding area.
7. n. Chiefly British A cutting in a peat bog.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A witch; a sorceress; an enchantress; very rarely, a male witch; wizard; magician.
2. n. A repulsive, vicious, or malicious old woman.
3. n. A cyclostomous or marsipobranchiate fish, Myxine glutinosa, or glutinous hag, related to the lamprey, type of family Myxinidæ and suborder Hyperotreta. See these technical words. The hag resembles an eel in some respects, is a foot or more long, has a cirrous sucking mouth, a strong palatal tooth, pouched gills, and is parasitic. Also hagfish, slime-eel.
4. n. A white mist; phosphoric light; an appearance of light or fire on horses' manes or men's hair.
5. To vex; harass; torment.
6. n. A small wood or wooded inclosure.
7. To cut; hack; chop; hew: same as hack.
8. To haggle or dispute.
9. n. A stroke with an ax or a knife; a notch; a cut; a hack.
10. n. A certain part of a wood intended to be cut.
11. n. One cutting or felling of a certain quantity of wood; also, the wood so cut.
12. n. Branches lopped off for firewood; brushwood.
13. n. A quagmire or pit in mossy ground; any broken ground in a bog.
14. n. a rabble; rag, tag, and bobtail.
15. n. A bachelor; a fellow; a man.
16. n. A kind of boat. See the quotation.
17. n. A bird: same as hagden.

Wiktionary

1. n. A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
2. n. A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.
3. n. A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard.
4. n. pejorative An ugly old woman.
5. n. A fury; a she-monster.
6. 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 order Hyperotreti. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.
7. n. The hagdon or shearwater.
8. n. An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
9. n. The fruit of the hagberry.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard.
2. n. An ugly old woman.
3. n. A fury; a she-monster.
4. n. (Zoöl.) 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 order Hyperotreta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.
5. n. (Zoöl.) The hagdon or shearwater.
6. n. An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
7. v. To harass; to weary with vexation.
8. n. A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or inclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
9. n. A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an ugly evil-looking old woman
2. 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