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A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard. [Obs.] "[Silenus] that old hag." Golding.

Ridden by a hag or witch; hence, afflicted with nightmare. Beattie. Cheyne.

The great woolly mullein (Verbascum Thapsus).

A plant of the genus Prunus (P. Padus); the bird cherry. [Scot.]

Born of a hag or witch. Shak.

us, of which the but was bent down or hooked for convenience in taking aim. [Written also haguebut and hackbuss.]

A soldier armed with a hagbut or arquebus. [Written also hackbutter.] Froude.

he genus Puffinus; esp., P. major, the greater shearwarter, and P. Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater; -- called also hagdown, haglin, and hag. See Shearwater.

See Hag, 4.

A story, anecdote, or legend in the Talmud, to explain or illustrate the text of the Old Testament. [Written also hadaga.]

Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk. [Obs.] Shak

In a haggard manner. Dryden.

Like a hag; lean; ugly. [R.]

soned, and boiled in the stomach of the same animal; minced head and pluck. [Written also haggiss, haggess, and haggies.]

Like a hag; ugly; wrinkled. But on both did haggish age steal on. Shak.

In the manner of a hag.

s; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood. Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped. Shak.

One who haggles or is difficult in bargaining.

A sacred government; by holy orders of men. Southey.

Government by a priesthood; hierarchy.