Slime n.
 1. Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.
 As it [Nilus] ebbs, the seedsman
 Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.   --Shak.
 2. Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
 3. Script. Bitumen. [Archaic]
    Slime had they for mortar.   --Gen. xi. 3.
 4. pl. Mining Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
 5. Physiol. A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals.
 Slime eel. Zool. See 1st Hag, 4.
 Slime pit, a pit for the collection of slime or bitumen.


 Hag n.
 1. A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard. [Obs.] “[Silenus] that old hag.”
 2. An ugly old woman.
 3. A fury; a she-monster.
 4. Zool. 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 Hyperotreta.  Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.
 5. Zool. The hagdon or shearwater.
 6. An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
 Hag moth Zool., a moth (Phobetron pithecium), the larva of which has curious side appendages, and feeds on fruit trees.
 Hag's tooth Naut., an ugly irregularity in the pattern of matting or pointing.