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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hag \Hag\ (h[a^]g), n. [OE. hagge, hegge, witch, hag, AS. h[ae]gtesse; akin to OHG. hagazussa, G. hexe, D. heks, Dan. hex, Sw. h[aum]xa. The first part of the word is prob. the same as E. haw, hedge, and the orig. meaning was perh., wood woman, wild woman. [root]12.] 1. A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard. [Obs.] "[Silenus] that old hag." --Golding. [1913 Webster] 2. An ugly old woman. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. A fury; a she-monster. --Crashaw. [1913 Webster] 4. (Zool.) An eel-like marine marsipobranch (Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial 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. [1913 Webster] 5. (Zool.) The hagdon or shearwater. [1913 Webster] 6. An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair. --Blount. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Slime \Slime\ (sl[imac]m), n. [OE. slim, AS. sl[imac]m; akin to D. slijm, G. schleim, MHG. sl[imac]men to make smooth, Icel. sl[imac]m slime, Dan. sliim; cf. L. limare to file, polish, levis smooth, Gr. ???; or cf. L. limus mud.] 1. Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud. [1913 Webster] As it [Nilus] ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive. [1913 Webster] 3. (Script.) Bitumen. [Archaic] [1913 Webster] Slime had they for mortar. --Gen. xi. 3. [1913 Webster] 4. pl. (Mining) Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing. --Pryce. [1913 Webster] 5. (Physiol.) A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] Slime eel. (Zool.) See 1st Hag, 4. Slime pit, a pit for the collection of slime or bitumen. [1913 Webster]