Word Meanings - HAG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An eel-like marine marsipobranch , 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.

Additional info about word: HAG

An eel-like marine marsipobranch , 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. (more info) 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. 1. A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard. " that old hag." Golding. 2. An ugly old woman. 3. A fury; a she-monster. Grashaw.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HAG)

• Crone
• Hag
• witch
• beldame

Related words: (words related to HAG)

• CRONET
  The coronet of a horse.
• WITCH-ELM
  See WYCH-ELM
• WITCH
  A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera. (more info) the same word as AS. witiga, witga, a soothsayer ; cf. Fries. wikke, a witch, LG. wikken to predict, Icel. vitki a wizard, 1. One who practices
• WITCHING
  That witches or enchants; suited to enchantment or witchcraft; bewitching. "The very witching time of night." Shak. -- Witch"ing*ly, adv.
• WITCHCRAFT
  1. The practices or art of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with evil spirits. 2. Power more than natural; irresistible influence. He hath a witchcraft Over the king in 's tongue. Shak.
• CRONE
  carogne, F. charogne, carrion . 1. An old ewe. Tusser. 2. An old woman; -- usually in contempt. But still the crone was constant to her note. Dryden. 3. An old man; especially, a man who talks and acts like an old woman. The old crone lived
• WITCH-TREE
  The witch-hazel.
• WITCHERY
  1. Sorcery; enchantment; witchcraft. Great Comus, Deep skilled in all his mother's witcheries. Milton. A woman infamous . . . for witcheries. Sir W. Scott. 2. Fascination; irresistible influence; enchantment. He never felt The witchery of the soft
• WITCH-HAZEL
  The wych-elm. An American shrub or small tree , which blossoms late in autumn.
• CRONEL
  The iron head of a tilting spear.
• WITCHUCK
  The sand martin, or bank swallow.
• UNWITCH
  To free from a witch or witches; to fee from witchcraft. B. Jonson.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• SPLIT SWITCH
  = Point switch.
• BEWITCHING
  Having power to bewitch or fascinate; enchanting; captivating; charming. -- Be*witch"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*witch"ing*ness, n.
• BEWITCHERY
  The power of bewitching or fascinating; bewitchment; charm; fascination. There is a certain bewitchery or fascination in words. South.
• WATER WITCH
  The dabchick. The stormy petrel.
• MICRONESIAN
  Of or pertaining to Micronesia, a collective designation of the islands in the western part of the Pacific Ocean, embracing the Marshall and Gilbert groups, the Ladrones, the Carolines, etc.
• MICRONESIANS
  A dark race inhabiting the Micronesian Islands. They are supposed to be a mixed race, derived from Polynesians and Papuans.
• SWITCHY
  Whisking. Coombe.
• TWITCH
  To pull with a sudden jerk; to pluck with a short, quick motion; to snatch; as, to twitch one by the sleeve; to twitch a thing out of another's hand; to twitch off clusters of grapes. Thrice they twitched the diamond in her ear. Pope. (more info)
• SWITCHEL
  A beverage of molasses and water, seasoned with vinegar and ginger.
• KNIFE SWITCH
  A switch consisting of one or more knifelike pieces hinged at one end and making contact near the other with flat gripping springs.
• COWITCH
  See COWHAGE
• BEWITCHEDNESS
  The state of being bewitched. Gauden.