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Gaunt — British author, d. 1925
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haggard
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Word definitions for haggard in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Haggard \Hag"gard\, n. [See Haggard , a.] (Falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon. A fierce, intractable creature. I have loved this proud disdainful haggard. --Shak. [See Haggard , a., 2.] A hag. [Obs.] --Garth.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "wild, unruly" (originally in reference to hawks), from Middle French haggard , probably from Old French faulcon hagard "wild falcon," literally "falcon of the woods," from Middle High German hag "hedge, copse, wood," from Proto-Germanic *hagon- ...
Usage examples of haggard.
He had always liked and respected Roland, and was appalled by this ashen and haggard man sitting his horse before him.
A haggard unshaven face, unnaturally pale, and bleary bloodshot eyes with dark circles under them.
Beaten haggard, he stood cloakless in his travel-stained leathers, while draught from the door left ajar at his back flared and harried the stubs of the candles.
There were sad, haggard women tramping by, well dressed, with children that cried and stumbled, their dainty clothes smothered in dust, their weary faces smeared with tears.
There were numerous shots of Kane as he had been in the early days, haggard with worry but determined to find Dinah, saying little except that.
He looked old and haggard and the sight of him brought a gasp from Disa Quennel.
The other man was a bit younger than Durand, but his face was haggard.
Molly Grue gathered her courage to answer, even though she suspected that it was impossible to speak the truth to King Haggard.
Buck hesitated as Carpathia stopped near them, Fortunato, Moon, Ivins, and others mince-stepping behind, pale and haggard.
The Master of Klieg looked tired, haggard from a growing sense of the inevitable.
They were just so, when Ram Yaksahn--with a ghastly haggard face--lurched from behind Nut Kut, fairly sobbing.
The haggard, distressed countenances of these miserable, complaining, dejected, living skeletons, crying for medical aid and food, and cursing their Government for its refusal to exchange prisoners, and the ghastly corpses, with their glazed eye balls staring up into vacant space, with the flies swarming down their open and grinning mouths, and over their ragged clothes, infested with numerous lice, as they lay amongst the sick and dying, formed a picture of helpless, hopeless misery which it would be impossible to portray bywords or by the brush.
Lanyon had meant about my haggard looks: my face had become morbidly thin and drawn in the space of a single day, whilst my hair seemed equally neglected and diseased.
All I see is that field-gray, at once haggard and bullish, he clutches the desk top with both hands and stares over our heads at an oleograph on the rear wall of the classroom: the spinach-green Thoma landscape.
The Phane, though so carefully bred as to seem a delicate girl, if used sexually became crumpled and haggard, with gauzes drooping and discolored, and everyone would know that such and such a gentleman had misused his Phane.