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  1.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                    

    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]

  2.                 From 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]

  3.                 From 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]

  4.                 From 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]