hag

n 1: an ugly evil-looking old woman [syn: {beldam}, {beldame}, {witch},

{crone}]

2: 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 [syn: {hagfish},

{slime eels}]

hang

1. To wait for an event that will never occur. "The system is

hanging because it can't read from the crashed drive". See

{wedged}, {hung}.

2. To wait for some event to occur; to hang around until

something happens. "The program displays a menu and then

hangs until you type a character." Compare {block}.

3. To attach a peripheral device, especially in the

construction "hang off": "We're going to hang another tape

drive off the file server." Implies a device attached with

cables, rather than something that is strictly inside the

machine's chassis.