An elderly lady whom you do not happen to like; sometimes called, also, a hen, or cat. Old witches, sorceresses, etc., were called hags from the belief that their heads were surrounded by a kind of baleful lumination or nimbus -- hag being the popular name of that peculiar electrical light sometimes observed in the hair. At one time hag was not a word of reproach: Drayton speaks of a "beautiful hag, all smiles," much as Shakespeare said, "sweet wench." It would not now be proper to call your sweetheart a hag -- that compliment is reserved for the use of her grandchildren.

A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard.

An ugly old woman.

Pilgrimage-Feast. One of the three holidays on which every Israelite male is required to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and "appear before YHWH".

Hebrew for "Feast"

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.

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

The hagdon or shearwater.

To harass; to weary with vexation.

A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.

Clump of firm ground in a bog or swamp.

A fury; a she-monster.

Harderian gland

See Chag

A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or inclosed for felling, or which has been felled.

Housing Association Grant. The capital grant which was paid to a registered housing association by Scottish Homes to meet the bulk of the costs of particular rehabilitation and new build projects. This has now been superseded by the Social Housing Grant (SHG).

An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.