An ugly evil-looking old woman.

synonyms: beldam, beldame, crone, witch.

Roget 913: evil doer, evil worker; wrongdoer etc. 949; mischief-maker, marplot; oppressor, tyrant; destroyer, Vandal; iconoclast^†.    firebrand, incendiary, fire bug [U.S.], pyromaniac; anarchist, communist^†, terrorist.    savage, brute, ruffian, barbarian, semibarbarian^†, caitiff, desperado; Apache^†, hoodlum, hood, plug-ugly [U.S.], Red Skin, tough [U.S.]; Mohawk, Mo-hock, Mo-hawk; bludgeon man, bully, rough, hooligan, larrikin^†, dangerous classes, ugly customer; thief etc. 792.    cockatrice, scorpion, hornet.    snake, viper, adder, snake in the grass; serpent, cobra, asp, rattlesnake, anaconda^†.    canker-worm, wire-worm; locust, Colorado beetle; alacran^†, alligator, caymon^†, crocodile, mosquito, mugger, octopus; torpedo; bane etc. 663.    cutthroat etc. (killer) 461.    cannibal; anthropophagus^†, anthropophagist^†; bloodsucker, vampire, ogre, ghoul, gorilla, vulture; gyrfalcon^†, gerfalcon^†.    wild beast, tiger, hyena, butcher, hangman; blood-hound, hell-hound, sleuth-hound; catamount [U.S.], cougar, jaguar, puma.    hag, hellhag^†, beldam, Jezebel.    monster; fiend etc. (demon) 980; devil incarnate, demon in human shape; Frankenstein's monster.    harpy, siren; Furies, Eumenides.    Hun, Attila^†, scourge of the human race.    ... show more

Roget 994: sorcerer, magician; thaumaturgist^†, theurgist; conjuror, necromancer, seer, wizard, witch; hoodoo, voodoo; fairy etc. 980; lamia^†, hag.    warlock, charmer, exorcist, mage^†; cunning man, medicine man; Shaman, figure flinger, ecstatica^†; medium, clairvoyant, fortune teller; mesmerist; deus ex machina [Lat.]; soothsayer etc. 513.    Katerfelto, Cagliostro, Mesmer, Rosicrucian; Circe, siren, weird sisters.    ... show more

Roget 846: ugliness etc. adj.; deformity, inelegance; acomia^†; disfigurement etc. (blemish) 848; want of symmetry, inconcinnity^†; distortion etc. 243; squalor etc. (uncleanness) 653.    forbidding countenance, vinegar aspect, hanging look, wry face, spretae injuria formae" [Vergil]. [person who is ugly] eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight, fright; monster; dog [Coll.], woofer [Coll.], pig [Coll.]; octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan^†, satyr^†, toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop^†, monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum [Lat.] [Vergil]. ... show more

Dutch: oud wijf, helleveeg, taart, lelijk wijf, tovenaar, kol, furie, heks, besje, tovenares
Polish: stara, starucha

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.