Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 187
Succeedant (a.) (Her.) Succeeding one another; following.
Succeeder (n.) A successor. -- Shak. -- Tennyson.
Succeeder (n.) A person with a record of successes; "his son would never be the achiever that his father was"; "only winners need apply"; "if you want to be a success you have to dress like a success" [syn: achiever, winner, success, succeeder] [ant: failure, loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful person].
Succeeding (n.) The act of one who, or that which, succeeds; also, that which succeeds, or follows after; consequence. -- Shak.
Succeeding (a.) Coming after or following [ant: preceding(a)]
Succeeding (a.) (Of elected officers) elected but not yet serving; "our next president" [syn: future(a), next, succeeding(a)].
Succentor (n.) (Eccl.) A subchanter.
Success (n.) Act of succeeding; succession. [Obs.]
Then all the sons of these five brethren reigned By due success. -- Spenser.
Success (n.) That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort.
Men . . . that are like to do that, that is committed to them, and to report back again faithfully the success. -- Bacon.
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The tempter stood. -- Milton.
Success (n.) The favorable or prosperous termination of anything attempted; the attainment of a proposed object; prosperous issue.
Dream of success and happy victory! -- Shak.
Or teach with more success her son The vices of the time to shun. -- Waller.
Military successes, above all others, elevate the minds of a people. -- Atterbury.
Success (n.) That which meets with, or one who accomplishes, favorable results, as a play or a player. [Colloq.]
Success (n.) An event that accomplishes its intended purpose; "let's call heads a success and tails a failure"; "the election was a remarkable success for the Whigs" [ant: failure].
Success (n.) An attainment that is successful; "his success in the marathon was unexpected"; "his new play was a great success".
Success (n.) A state of prosperity or fame; "he is enjoying great success"; "he does not consider wealth synonymous with success" [ant: failure].
Success (n.) A person with a record of successes; "his son would never be the achiever that his father was"; "only winners need apply"; "if you want to be a success you have to dress like a success" [syn: achiever, winner, success, succeeder] [ant: failure, loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful person].
Success, (n.) The one
unpardonable sin against one's fellows. In literature, and particularly in
poetry, the elements of success are exceedingly simple, and are
admirably set forth in the following lines by the reverend Father Gassalasca
Jape, entitled, for some mysterious reason, "John A.
Joyce."
The bard who would prosper must carry a book, Do his thinking in prose and wear A
crimson cravat, a far-away look And a head of hexameter hair.
Be thin in your thought and your body'll be fat; If you wear your hair long you needn't your hat.
Success, AR -- U.S. town in Arkansas
Population (2000): 180
Housing Units (2000): 85
Land area (2000): 0.218415 sq. miles (0.565692 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.218415 sq. miles (0.565692 sq. km)
FIPS code: 67550
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 36.454579 N, 90.722971 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 72470
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Success
Successary (n.) Succession. [Obs.]
My peculiar honors, not derived From successary, but purchased with my blood. -- Beau. & Fl.
Successful (a.) Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise.
Welcome, nephews, from successful wars. -- Shak.
Syn: Happy; prosperous; fortunate; auspicious; lucky. See Fortunate. -- Suc*cess"ful*ly, adv. -- Suc*cess"ful*ness, n.
Successful (a.) Having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome; "a successful architect"; "a successful business venture" [ant: unsuccessful].
Succession (n.) The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters.
Succession (n.) A series of persons or things according to some established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings, or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology.
He was in the succession to an earldom. -- Macaulay.
Succession (n.) An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent. "A long succession must ensue." -- Milton.
Succession (n.) The power or right of succeeding to the station or title of a father or other predecessor; the right to enter upon the office, rank, position, etc., held ny another; also, the entrance into the office, station, or rank of a predecessor; specifically, the succeeding, or right of succeeding, to a throne.
You have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark. -- Shak.
The animosity of these factions did not really arise from the dispute about the succession. -- Macaulay.
Succession (n.) The right to enter upon the possession of the property of an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an established order.
Succession (n.) The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir. [R.] -- Milton.
Apostolical succession. (Theol.) See under Apostolical.
Succession duty, A tax imposed on every succession to property, according to its value and the relation of the person who succeeds to the previous owner. [Eng.]
Succession of crops. (Agric.) See Rotation of crops, under Rotation.
Succession (n.) A following of one thing after another in time; "the doctor saw a sequence of patients" [syn: sequence, chronological sequence, succession, successiveness, chronological succession].
Succession (n.) A group of people or things arranged or following in order; "a succession of stalls offering soft drinks"; "a succession of failures".
Succession (n.) The action of following in order; "he played the trumps in sequence" [syn: succession, sequence].
Succession (n.) (Ecology) The gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established [syn: succession, ecological succession].
Succession (n.) Acquisition of property by descent or by will [syn: succession, taking over].
Succession, () in Louisiana. The right and transmission of the rights an obligations of the deceased to his heirs. Succession signifies also the estate, rights and charges which a person leaves after his death, whether the property exceed the charges, or the charges exceed the property, or whether he has left only charges without property. The succession not only includes the rights and obligations of the deceased, as they exist at the time of his death, but all that has accrued thereto since the opening of the succession, as also of the new charges to which it becomes subject. Finally, succession signifies also that right by which the heir can take possession of the estate of the deceased, such as it may be.
Succession, () There are three sorts of successions, to wit: testamentary succession; legal succession; and, irregular succession. 1. Testamentary succession is that which results from the constitution of the heir, contained in a testament executed in the form prescribed by law. 2. Legal succession is that which is established in favor of the nearest relations of the deceased. 3. Irregular succession is that which is established by law in favor of certain persons or of the state in default of heirs either legal or instituted by testament. Civ. Code, art. 867-874.
Succession, () The lines of a regular succession are divided into three, which rank among themselves in the following order: 1. Descendants. 2. Ascendants. 3. Collaterals. See Descent. Vide Poth. Traite des Successions Ibid. Coutumes d'Orleans, tit. 17 Ayl. Pand. 348; Toull. liv. 3, tit. 1; Domat, h.t.; Merl. Repert. h.t.
Succession, () com. law. The mode by which one set of persons, members of a corporation aggregate, acquire the rights of another set which preceded them. This term in strictness is to be applied only to such corporations. 2 Bl. Com. 430.
Successional (a.) Of or pertaining to a succession; existing in a regular order; consecutive. "Successional teeth." -- Flower. -- Suc*ces"sion*al*ly, adv.
Successionist (n.) A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially (Eccl.), one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid.
Successive (a.) Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer.
Send the successive ills through ages down. -- Prior.
Successive (a.) Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Successive induction. (Math.) See Induction, 5.
Successive (a.) In regular succession without gaps; "serial concerts" [syn: consecutive, sequent, sequential, serial, successive].
Successively (adv.) In a successive manner.
The whiteness, at length, changed successively into blue, indigo, and violet. -- Sir I. Newton.
Successively (adv.) In proper order or sequence; "talked to each child in turn"; "the stable became in turn a chapel and then a movie theater" [syn: successively, in turn].
Successiveness (n.) The quality or state of being successive.
Successiveness (n.) A following of one thing after another in time; "the doctor saw a sequence of patients" [syn: sequence, chronological sequence, succession, successiveness, chronological succession].
Successless (a.) Having no success.
Successless all her soft caresses prove. -- Pope. -- Suc*cess"less*ly, adv. -- Suc*cess"less*ness, n.
Successor (n.) [C] 後繼者，繼任者，接任者；[（+to）] 繼承人；後續的事物；接替的事物 One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; -- correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of a deceased king. -- Chaucer.
A gift to a corporation, either of lands or of chattels, without naming their successors, vests an absolute property in them so lond as the corporation subsists. -- Blackstone.
Successor (n.) A person who follows next in order; "he was President Lincoln's successor" [syn: {successor}, {replacement}].
Successor (n.) A thing or person that immediately replaces something or someone.
Successor (n.) A person who inherits some title or office [syn: {successor}, {heir}].
Daughter
Child
Successor
(Or "child", "successor") In a tree, a node pointed to by a parent, i.e. another node closer to the root node.
(1998-11-14)
SuccessoR, () A language for distributed computing derived from SR.
["SuccessoR: Refinements to SR", R.A. Olsson et al, TR 84-3, U Arizona 1984].
(1994-12-15)
Successor. () One who follows or comes into the place of another.
Successor. () This term is applied more particularly to a sole corporation, or to any corporation. The word heir is more correctly applicable to a common person who takes an estate by descent. 12 Pick. R. 322; Co. Litt. 8 b.
Successor. () It is also used to designate a person who has been appointed or elected to some office, after another person.
Succiduous (a.) Ready to fall; falling. [R.]
Succiferous (a.) Producing or conveying sap.
Succinamate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of succinamic acid.
Succinamic (a.) (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid amide derivative of succinic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, and forming a series of salts.
Succinate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of succinic acid.
Succinct (a.) 簡練的；簡潔的；壓縮在小範圍內；（衣服等）緊貼身體的 Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.
His habit fit for speed succinct. -- Milton.
Succinct (a.) Compressed into a narrow compass; brief; concise.
Let all your precepts be succinct and clear. -- Roscommon.
The shortest and most succinct model that ever grasped all the needs and necessities of mankind. -- South.
Syn: Short; brief; concise; summary; compendious; laconic; terse. -- Suc*cinct"ly, adv. -- Suc*cinct"ness, n.
Succinct (a.) Briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject" [syn: compendious, compact, succinct, summary].
Succinic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, amber; specif., designating a dibasic acid, C?H?.(CO?H)?, first obtained by the dry distillation of amber. It is found in a number of plants, as in lettuce and wormwood, and is also produced artificially as a white crystalline substance having a slightly acid taste.
Succinic (a.) Of or relating to or obtained from amber.
Succinimide (n.) (Chem.) A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, C2H4.(CO)2.NH, obtained by treating succinic anhydride with ammonia gas. It is a typical imido acid, and forms a series of salts. See Imido acid, under Imido.
Succinite (n.) (Min.) Amber.
Succinite (n.) (Min.) A garnet of an amber color.
Succinous (a.) Succinic. [R.]
Succinurate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of succinuric acid.
Succinuric (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid amide, analogous to succinamic acid, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance by heating urea with succinic anhydride. It is known also in its salts.
Succinyl (n.) (Chem.) A hypothetical radical characteristic of succinic acid and certain of its derivatives.
Succise (a.) (Bot.) Appearing as if a part were cut off at the extremity.
Succision (n.) The act of cutting down, as of trees; the act of cutting off. [R.]
Succored (imp. & p. p.) of Succor.
Succoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Succor.
Succor (v. t.) To run to, or run to support; hence, to help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve; as, to succor a besieged city. [Written also succour.].
He is able to succor them that are tempted. -- Heb. ii. 18.
Syn: To aid; assist; relieve; deliver; help; comfort.
Succor (n.) Aid; help; assistance; esp., assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress. "We beseech mercy and succor." -- Chaucer.
My noble father . . . Flying for succor to his servant Bannister. -- Shak.
Succor (n.) The person or thing that brings relief.
This mighty succor, which made glad the foe. -- Dryden.
Succor (n.) Assistance in time of difficulty; "the contributions provided some relief for the victims" [syn: relief, succor, succour, ministration].
Succor (v.) Help in a difficult situation [syn: succor, succour].
Succorable (a.) Capable of being succored or assisted; admitting of relief.
Succorer (n.) One who affords succor; a helper.
Succorer (n.) Someone who gives help in times of need or distress or difficulty [syn: succorer, succourer].
Succorless (a.) Destitute of succor. -- Thomson.
Succory (n.) (Bot.) A plant of the genus Cichorium. See Chicory.
Succory (n.) Perennial Old World herb having rayed flower heads with blue florets cultivated for its root and its heads of crisp edible leaves used in salads [syn: chicory, succory, chicory plant, Cichorium intybus].
Succotash (n.) Green maize and beans boiled together. The dish is borrowed from the native Indians. [Written also suckatash.]
Succotash (n.) Fresh corn and lima beans with butter or cream.
Succoteague (n.) (Zool.) The squeteague.
Succubae (n. pl. ) of Succuba.
Succuba (n.) A female demon or fiend. See Succubus.
Though seeming in shape a woman natural Was a fiend of the kind that succubae some call. -- Mir. for Mag.
Succuba (n.) A female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men [syn: succubus, succuba].
Succubine (a.) Of or pertaining to succuba.
Succubous (a.) (Bot.) Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one is covered by the base of the next higher leaf, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Plagiochila.
Succubi (n. pl. ) of Succubus.
Succubus (n.) A demon or fiend; especially, a lascivious spirit supposed to have sexual intercourse with the men by night; a succuba. Cf. Incubus.
Succubus (n.) (Med.) The nightmare. See Nightmare, 2.
Succula (n.) (Mach.) A bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum. Succulence
Succulence (n.) Alt. of Succulency.
Succulency (n.) The quality or condition of being succulent; juiciness; as, the succulence of a peach.
Succulency (n.) A juicy appetizingness [syn: succulence, succulency, juiciness].
Succulent (a.) Full of juice; juicy.
Succulent plants (Bot.), Plants which have soft and juicy leaves or stems, as the houseleek, the live forever, and the species of Mesembryanthemum.
Succulent (a.) Full of juice; "lush fruits"; "succulent roast beef"; "succulent plants with thick fleshy leaves" [syn: lush, succulent].
Succulent (n.) A plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs.
Succulently (adv.) In a succulent manner.
Succulous (a.) Succulent; juicy. [R.]
Succumbed (imp. & p. p.) of Succumb.
Succumbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Succumb.
Succumb (v. t.) (v. i.) [(+to)] 屈服；委棄；聽任；被壓垮；死 To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.
Succumb (v.) Consent reluctantly [syn: {yield}, {give in}, {succumb}, {knuckle under}, {buckle under}].
Succumb (v.) Be fatally overwhelmed [syn: {succumb}, {yield}] [ant: {come through}, {make it}, {pull round}, {pull through}, {survive}].
Succumb (v.) [ I ] (Formal) (C2) 屈從，屈服；放棄抵抗；承認失敗 To lose the determination to oppose something; to accept defeat.
// The town finally succumbed last week after being pounded with heavy artillery for more than two months.
// I'm afraid I succumbed to temptation and had a piece of cheesecake.
// I felt sure it would only be a matter of time before he succumbed to my charms.
Succumb (v.) [ I ] (Formal) (C2) 病死；生病；受病痛折磨 To die or suffer badly from an illness.
// Thousands of cows have succumbed to the disease in the past few months.
Succumbent (a.) Submissive; yielding. [R.] -- Howell.
Succursal (a.) Serving to aid or help; serving as a chapel of ease; tributary. [R.]
Not a city was without its cathedral, surrounded by its succursal churches, its monasteries, and convents. -- Milman.
Succi (n. pl. ) of Succus.
Succus (n.) (Med.) The expressed juice of a plant, for medicinal use.
Succus entericus. [NL., literally, juice of the intestines.] (Physiol.) A fluid secreted in small by certain glands (probably the glands of Lieberk["u]hn) of the small intestines. Its exact action is somewhat doubtful.
Succus (n.) Any of several liquids of the body; "digestive juices" [syn: juice, succus].
Succussation (n.) A trot or trotting. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Succussation (n.) A shaking; succussion.
Succussion (n.) The act of shaking; a shake; esp. (Med.), a shaking of the body to ascertain if there be a liquid in the thorax.
Succussion (n.) Shaking a person to determine whether a large amount of liquid is present in a body cavity.
Succussive (a.) Characterized by a shaking motion, especially an up and down movement, and not merely tremulous oscillation; as, the succussive motion in earthquakes.
Such (a.) Of that kind; of the like kind; like; resembling; similar; as, we never saw such a day; -- followed by that or as introducing the word or proposition which defines the similarity, or the standard of comparison; as, the books are not such that I can recommend them, or, not such as I can recommend; these apples are not such as those we saw yesterday; give your children such precepts as tend to make them better.
And in his time such a conqueror That greater was there none under the sun. -- Chaucer.
His misery was such that none of the bystanders could refrain from weeping. -- Macaulay.
Note: The indefinite article a or an never precedes such, but is placed between it and the noun to which it refers; as, such a man; such an honor. The indefinite adjective some, several, one, few, many, all, etc., precede such; as, one such book is enough; all such people ought to be avoided; few such ideas were then held.
Such (a.) Having the particular quality or character specified.
That thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself. -- Milton.
Such (a.) The same that; -- with as; as, this was the state of the kingdom at such time as the enemy landed. "[It] hath such senses as we have." -- Shak.
Such (a.) Certain; -- representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned.
In rushed one and tells him such a knight Is new arrived. -- Daniel.
To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year. -- James iv. 13.
Note: Such is used pronominally. "He was the father of such as dwell in tents." -- Gen. iv. 20. "Such as I are free in spirit when our limbs are chained." -- Sir W. Scott.
Such is also used before adjectives joined to substantives; as, the fleet encountered such a terrible storm that it put back. "Everything was managed with so much care, and such excellent order was observed." -- De Foe.
Temple sprung from a family which . . . long after his death produced so many eminent men, and formed such distinguished alliances, that, etc. -- Macaulay.
Such is used emphatically, without the correlative.
Now will he be mocking: I shall have such a life. -- Shak.
Such was formerly used with numerals in the sense of times as much or as many; as, such ten, or ten times as many.
Such and such, or Such or such, Certain; some; -- used to represent the object indefinitely, as already particularized in one way or another, or as being of one kind or another. "In such and such a place shall be my camp." --2 Kings vi. 8. "Sovereign authority may enact a law commanding such and such an action." -- South.
Such like or Such character, of the like kind.
And many other such like things ye do. -- Mark vii. 8.
Such (adv.) To so extreme a degree; "he is such a baby"; "Such rich people!"
Such (a.) Of so extreme a degree or extent; "such weeping"; "so much weeping"; "such a help"; "such grief"; "never dreamed of such beauty".
Suchospondylous (a.) (Zool.) Having dorsal vertebrae with long and divided transverse processes; -- applied to certain reptiles.
Suchwise (adv.) In a such a manner; so.
Sucked (imp. & p. p.) of Suck.
Sucking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suck.
Suck (v. t.) To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressure; to draw, or apply force to, by exhausting the air.
Suck (v. t.) To draw liquid from by the action of the mouth; as, to suck an orange; specifically, to draw milk from (the mother, the breast, etc.) with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother, or dam; an infant sucks the breast.
Suck (v. t.) To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground.
Suck (v. t.) To draw or drain.
Old ocean, sucked through the porous globe. -- Thomson.
Suck (v. t.) To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up.
As waters are by whirlpools sucked and drawn. -- Dryden.
To suck in, To draw into the mouth; to imbibe; to absorb.
To suck out, To draw out with the mouth; to empty by suction.
To suck up, To draw into the mouth; to draw up by suction or absorption.
Suck (v. i.) To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube.
Where the bee sucks, there suck I. -- Shak.
Suck (v. i.) To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking.
Suck (v. i.) To draw in; to imbibe; to partake.
The crown had sucked too hard, and now, being full, was like to draw less. -- Bacon.
Suck (v. i.) To be objectionable, of very poor quality, or offensive; as, telemarketing calls really suck; he's a good actor, but his singing sucks. [Colloq.]
Suck (n.) The act of drawing with the mouth.
Suck (n.) That which is drawn into the mouth by sucking; specifically, mikl drawn from the breast. -- Shak.
Suck (n.) A small draught. [Colloq.] -- Massinger.
Suck (n.) Juice; succulence. [Obs.]
Suck (n.) The act of sucking [syn: sucking, suck, suction].
Suck (v.) Draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth; "suck the poison from the place where the snake bit"; "suck on a straw"; "the baby sucked on the mother's breast".
Suck (v.) Draw something in by or as if by a vacuum; "Mud was sucking at her feet".
Suck (v.) Attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.; "The current boom in the economy sucked many workers in from abroad" [syn: suck, suck in].
Suck (v.) Be inadequate or objectionable; "this sucks!"
Suck (v.) Provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation [syn: fellate, suck, blow, go down on].
Suck (v.) Take in, also metaphorically; "The sponge absorbs water well"; "She drew strength from the minister's words" [syn: absorb, suck, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, draw, take in, take up].
Suck (v.) Give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places" [syn: breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck] [ant: bottlefeed].
Seawan, Seawant (n.) The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads which passed among the Indians as money.
Note: Seawan was of two kinds; wampum, white, and suckanhock, black or purple, -- the former having half the value of the latter. Many writers, however, use the terms seawan and wampum indiscriminately. -- Bartlett.
Suckanhock (n.) A kind of seawan. See Note under Seawan.
Succotash (n.) [Narragansett Indian m'sickquatash corn boiled whole.] Green maize and beans boiled together. The dish is borrowed from the native Indians. [Written also suckatash.]
Suckatash (n.) See Succotash. -- Bartlett.
Sucken (n.) (Scots Law) The jurisdiction of a mill, or that extent of ground astricted to it, the tenants of which are bound to bring their grain thither to be ground.
Hag (n.) A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard. [Obs.] "[Silenus] that old hag." -- Golding.
Hag (n.) An ugly old woman. -- Dryden.
Hag (n.) A fury; a she-monster. -- Crashaw.
Hag (n.) (Zool.) An eel-like marine marsipobranch ({Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a sectorial 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.
Hag (n.) (Zool.) The hagdon or shearwater.
Hag (n.) An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair. -- Blount.
Hag+moth+(Zool.),+A+moth+({Phobetron+pithecium">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.
Sucker (n.) One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.