Pythoness and Hag

noun

• A witch with powers of divination.
• Greek mythology. ( the priestess of Apollo at Delphi who transmitted the oracles).
  • synonyms: Pythia

• (n.) The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece.
• (n.) Any woman supposed to have a spirit of divination; a sort of witch.

noun

• An ugly evil-looking old woman.
  • synonyms: beldam, beldame, witch, crone
• Eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies.
  • synonyms: hagfish, slime eels

• (n.) A small wood or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or inclosed for felling or which has been felled.
• (v.t.) To harass; to weary with vexation.
• (n.) A witch, sorceress or enchantress; also, a wizard.
• (n.) An ugly old woman.
• (n.) A fury; a she-monster.
• (n.) An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
• (n.) The hagdon or shearwater.
• (n.) 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 Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.
• (n.) A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.