hag

A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a female wizard.

And that olde hag that with a staffe his staggering lymbes dooth stay

Such unaccountable masses of shades and shadows, that at first you almost thought some ambitious young artist, in the time of the New England hags, had endeavored to delineate chaos bewitched.

An ugly old woman.

The elder women were literally "old hags" - lean and shrivelled, and excessively ugly.

An evil woman.

I don't plan to stop drinking. But... I don't wanna forget. I can't turn away anymore. So, if I'm gonna die, well, it might as well be driving my sword through the heart of that murderous hag.

A woman.

A fury; a she-monster.

Fourth of the cursed knot of hags is she / Or rather all the other three in one; / Hell's shop of slaughter she does oversee, / And still assist the execution

A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.

This said, he led me over hoults and hags; / Through thorns and bushes scant my legs I drew

A marshy hollow, especially an area of peat lying lower than surrounding moorland, formed by erosion of a gully or cutting and often having steep edges.

And they likewise ordained […] that all the warp should be thrown into the Common wayes, to fill up haggs and lakes, where need was, upon a great penalty, where it should ly neer the Common rode.

[…] upon wet brae-sides, peat-haggs, and flow-mosses, […]

To cut or erode (as) a hag (a hollow into moorland).

hag […] is that part in mosses which is naturally or artificially cut, hollowed, hagged, or hacked; naturally by water runlets forming hollows, and artificially by, among other means, the cutting and removal of peat.

Covenanters too met often on our moss-hagged moors.