Entry Word: hag

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a mean or ugly old woman <how was poor Snow White to know that the hag with the apple was actually the jealous queen in disguise?> — see crone
2 a woman believed to have often harmful supernatural powers <in the dark forest the mossy trees looked to poor frightened Gretel like hags, who were sure to turn her into a stump> — see witch 1