1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. He has been at Had’em and come home by Clapham, said of one who has caught the venereal disease. Hag, subs. (old: now recognised).—1. A witch. Whence (2) an ugly old woman; a she-monster. Also (3) a nightmare. At Charterhouse, a female of any description; at Winchester, a matron. Hence, Hag-ridden = troubled with nightmare. Hag-born = witch-born. Hag-seed (Shakspeare, Tempest) = spawned of a witch. Hag-faced = foul-featured. In another sense, Hags = spots of firm ground in a moss or bog. d. 1529. Skelton, Duke of Albany, Lyke a Scottish hag. 1606. Wily Beguiled (Dodsley, Old Plays, 4th ed., 1875, ix., 277). Like to some hellish hag or some damned fiend. 1606. Shakspeare, Macbeth, iv., 1. How now, you secret, black, and midnight Hags! 1627. Drayton, The Moon-calf (Chalmer’s English Poets, 1810, iv., 133). The filthy hag abhoring of the light. 1632. Jonson, Magnetic Lady, v. 6. Out hag! 1637. Jonson, Sad Shepherd, ii., 2. As if you knew the sport of witch-hunting, Or starting of a hag. 1680. Cotton, Poems, etc., ‘To Poet E.W.’ Adulterate hags, fit for a common stew. 1690. B. E., Cant. Crew, s.v. 1748. Thomson, Castle of Indolence, i., 73. Fierce fiends and Hags of hell their only nurses were. 1773–83. Hoole, Orlando Furioso, xliii., 998. But such a Hag to paradise conveyed, Had withered by her looks the blissful shade. 1815. Scott, Guy Mannering, xliii. Hatteraick himself, and the gypsy sailor, and that old hag. 1892. Hume Nisbet, Bushranger’s Sweetheart, p. 89. Old women were there also, with hideous vice-stamped features, veritable hags all of them. Your Hagship! phr. (common).—In contempt (of women). Hag-finder, subs. (old).—A witch finder. 1637. Jonson, Sad Shepherd, ii., 2. That I do promise, or I am no good hag-finder. Hagged, adj. (old, now [as Haggard] recognised).—Ugly; gaunt; hag-like. 1690. B. E., Cant. Crew, s.v. Hagged, Lean, Witched, Half-starved. 1716–1771. Gray, A Long Story. The ghostly prudes with Hagged face. Haggisland, subs. (common).—Scotland. Haggle, verb. (old, now recognised).—To bargain keenly; to stick at, or out for, trumpery points; to debate small issues. 1690. B. E., Cant. Crew, s.v. 1849–61. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., ch. xx. Haggling with the greedy, making up quarrels. Haggler, subs. (old).—Formerly a travelling merchant; a pedlar: now (in London vegetable markets) a middleman. Cf., Bummaree. 1662. Fuller, Worthies; Dorsetshire. Horses, on which Haglers used to ride and carry their commodities. 1690. B. E., Cant. Crew, s.v. A Hagler, one that buys of the Country Folks, and sells in the Market, and goes from Door to Door. 1697. Vanbrugh, Æsop, ii, 1. I’se no hagler, gadswookers; and he that says I am—’zbud, he lies!