Hag vs Crowne - What's the difference?
hag | crowne |
A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard.
* (rfdate) Golding
(pejorative) An ugly old woman.
A fury; a she-monster.
A hagfish; an eel-like marine marsipobranch, , allied to the lamprey, with a suctorial mouth, labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings.
A hagdon or shearwater.
An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus .
To harass; to weary with vexation.
* L'Estrange
A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
* Fairfax
A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between hag and crowne
is that hag is a witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard while crowne is obsolete spelling of lang=en.As a verb hag
is to harass; to weary with vexation.hag
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) hagge, hegge 'demon, old woman', shortening of (etyl) '', ).1987, E. C. Polomé, R. Bergmann (editor), "Althochdeutsch ''hag(a)zussa'' 'Hexe': Versuch einer neuen Etymologie", ''Althochdeutsch 2 (Wörter und Namen. Forschungsgeschichte) , pages 1107-1112.Noun
(en noun)- [Silenus] that old hag .
- (Crashaw)
- (Blount)
Synonyms
* (witch or sorceress) * (ugly old woman) See also * (fury or she-monster) * (eel-like marine marsipobranch) borer, hagfish, sleepmarken, slime eel, sucker * (hagdon or shearwater) * (appearance of light and fire on mane or hair) * (fruit of the hagberry)Derived terms
* fag hagVerb
(hagg)- How are superstitious men hagged out of their wits with the fancy of omens.
Etymology 2
Scots ; compare English hack.Noun
(en noun)- This said, he led me over hoults and hags ; / Through thorns and bushes scant my legs I drew.
- (Dugdale)