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hag

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Noun

  1. A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard.
  2. An ugly old woman.
  3. An evil woman.
  4. A woman over the age of 30 years.
  5. A fury; a she-monster.
  6. 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.
  7. A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus.
  8. An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a person's hair.
  9. The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.
  10. Sleep paralysis.
  11. A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
  12. 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.

Verb

  1. To cut or erode (as) a hag (a hollow into moorland).
  2. To harass; to weary with vexation.

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