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• hag|fish — «HAG FIHSH», noun, plural fish|es or (collectively) fish. any one of certain eel shaped marine vertebrates related to the lampreys, with degenerate eyes and circular mouths surrounded by eight tentacles. The hagfish bores into fish and eats their …   Useful english dictionary

• Hag (disambiguation) — Hag may refer to: *Hag, a wizened old woman, or a fairy with the appearance of an old woman *HAG, a Swiss model train company *Night terror, a type of parasomnia *Sleep paralysis, another parasomnia *Night hag, a monster from the game Dungeons… …   Wikipedia

• hag´gler — hag|gle «HAG uhl», verb, gled, gling, noun. –v.i. to dispute, especially about a price or the terms of a bargain; stickle: »He went marketing…to haggle with tradesmen over fish…tapioca and so on (Rudyard Kipling). The Big Four Foreign Ministers… …   Useful english dictionary

• hag|gle — «HAG uhl», verb, gled, gling, noun. –v.i. to dispute, especially about a price or the terms of a bargain; stickle: »He went marketing…to haggle with tradesmen over fish…tapioca and so on (Rudyard Kipling). The Big Four Foreign Ministers wasted… …   Useful english dictionary

• Café HAG — is a worldwide brand of decaffeinated coffee owned by U.S. multinational Kraft Foods.[1] The brand originated in Bremen in Germany in 1906 and took its name from the company title Kaffee Handels Aktien Gesellschaft, or Kaffee HAG for short. The… …   Wikipedia

• herring hag — Porpoise Por poise, n. [OE. porpeys, OF. porpeis, literally, hog fish, from L. porcus swine + piscis fish. See {Pork}, and {Fish}.] 1. (Zo[ o]l.) Any small cetacean of the genus {Phoc[ae]na}, especially {Phoc[ae]na communis}, or {Phoc[ae]na… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• jawless fish — noun eel shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms • Syn: ↑jawless vertebrate, ↑agnathan • Hypernyms: ↑aquatic vertebrate • Hyponyms: ↑ostracoderm, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• hagfish — /hag fish /, n., pl. (esp. collectively) hagfish, (esp. referring to two or more kinds or species) hagfishes. any eellike, marine cyclostome of the order Myxiniformes, having undeveloped eyes, a barbel rimmed, circular mouth, and horny teeth for… …   Universalium

• hagfish — hag•fish [[t]ˈhægˌfɪʃ[/t]] n. pl. (esp. collectively) fish, (esp. for kinds or species) fish•es. ich any eel shaped jawless fish of the order Myxiniformes, having a round, sucking mouth and rasping tongue for boring into the flesh of other fishes …   From formal English to slang

• hagfish — [hag′fish΄] n. pl. hagfish or hagfishes (see FISH) [ HAG1 + FISH] any of an order (Myxiniformes) of small, eel like marine jawless fishes, with a round, sucking mouth and horny teeth …   English World dictionary