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 ]

n. [ OE. hagge, hegge, witch, hag, AS. hægtesse; akin to OHG. hagazussa, G. hexe, D. heks, Dan. hex, Sw. häxa. The first part of the word is prob. the same as E. haw, hedge, and the orig. meaning was perh., wood woman, wild woman. √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 ]

n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Prunus (Prunus Padus); the bird cherry. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Born of a hag or witch. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. haquebute, prob. a corruption of D. haakbus; haak hook + bus gun barrel. See Hook, and 2d Box, and cf. Arquebus. ] A harquebus, of which the but was bent down or hooked for convenience in taking aim. [ Written also haguebut and hackbuss. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A soldier armed with a hagbut or arquebus. [ Written also hackbutter. ] Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

pos>n.(Zoöl.) See Hag, 4. [ 1913 Webster ]