Synonyms:
hagfish, hag, slime_eels
Meaning: 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
Synonyms:
hag, beldam, beldame, witch, crone
Meaning: an ugly evil-looking old woman
Usage examples
This made the old hag still more afraid.
'Where is my brother, cruel hag?' asked he sternly.
"You wretch!" said I, catching my breath--"you--you--you villainous old hag!"
When the old hag had turned over the whole basket she muttered, 'Bad stuff, bad stuff; much better fifty years ago--all bad.'
The squalid and withered person of this hag might well have obtained for her the character of possessing more than human cunning.
'As if it wasn't enough,' he grumbled between his teeth, 'that the boy should pick up a hag without a penny, but the goose must go and burn now.
'Oh! the poor old bag-of-bones', said another, whose heart took pity on her, 'the old hag may sit inside and welcome; such a one as she can do no harm.'
The Comtesse looked round at the quaint, old-fashioned English inn, the peace of this land of civil and religious liberty, and she closed her eyes to shut out the haunting vision of that West Barricade, and of the mob retreating panic-stricken when the old hag spoke of the plague.