Define the word hagfish"hagfish" gcide "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.
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2. An ugly old woman. --Dryden.
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3. A fury; a she-monster. --Crashaw.
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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.
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5. (Zool.) The hagdon or shearwater.
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6. An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a
man's hair. --Blount.
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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.
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"Hagfish" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Hagfish \Hag"fish`\(-f[i^]sh`),n.(Zo["o]l.)
See Hag, 4.
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"hagfish" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
hagfish
n : 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 [syn: hag,
slime eels]
[also: hagfishes (pl)]
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