hag

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard.

   “And that olde hag that with a staffe his staggering lymbes dooth stay”

2. isim An ugly old woman.

   “The elder women were literally "old hags" - lean and shrivelled, and excessively ugly.”

3. isim An evil woman.

   “I don't plan to stop drinking. But... I don't wanna forget. I can't turn away anymore. So, if I'm gonna die, well, it might as well be driving my sword through the heart of that murderous hag.”

4. isim A woman.
5. isim A fury; a she-monster.

   “Fourth of the cursed knot of hags is she / Or rather all the other three in one; / Hell's shop of slaughter she does oversee, / And still assist the execution”

6. isim 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. isim A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus.
8. isim An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a person's hair.

   “Flamma lambentes (or those we call Haggs) are made of Sweat or some other Vapour issuing out of the Head; a not-unusuall sight amongst us when we ride by night in the Summer time: They are extinguisht, like flames, by shaking the Horse Mains”

9. isim The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.
10. isim Sleep paralysis.
11. isim A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.

    “This said, he led me over hoults and hags; / Through thorns and bushes scant my legs I drew”

12. isim 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.

    “And they likewise ordained […] that all the warp should be thrown into the Common wayes, to fill up haggs and lakes, where need was, upon a great penalty, where it should ly neer the Common rode.”

13. fiil To cut or erode (as) a hag (a hollow into moorland).

    “hag […] is that part in mosses which is naturally or artificially cut, hollowed, hagged, or hacked; naturally by water runlets forming hollows, and artificially by, among other means, the cutting and removal of peat.”

14. fiil To harass; to weary with vexation.

    “How are Superstitious Men Hagg'd Out of their Wits and Senses, with the Fancy of Omens, Forebodings, Old Wives Tales, and Visions”