The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. One of several species of sea birds of the genus ''Puffinus'', especially, (taxlink Puffinus major species noshow=1), the (vern greater shearwater pedia=1), and (taxlink Puffinus stricklandi species noshow=1), the (vern black hagdon pedia=1) or (vern sooty shearwater pedia=1).
Usage examples of "hagdon".
However, the necromancy of language is more than a metaphor to Sir Roderick Hagdon: the scars of fire on his ankles are things which no one could possibly regard as having their origin in a figure of speech.
His surprize was little short of consternation when the deaths of his father, of Sir John Hagdon and Sir John's only son, all occurring within less than a year, left clear his own succession and brought a letter from the family lawyers informing him of this fact--which otherwise might have escaped his attention.
But though he had never known anything but the primitive Australian environment, Hagdon found himself quite at home in this atmosphere of Old World complexities--an atmosphere that was made from the dissolving phantoms of a thousand years, from the breathings of dead men and women, from loves and hates that had gone down to dust.
Somehow, in a way that was past analysis, that was more intimate than his regard for the remote blot on the Hagdon name, he felt that the thing concerned himself also.
Even as it was written, he returned from the moor to Hagdon Hall with the vision of a fair stranger in his heart.
And Hagdon Hall became the scene of pandemonian revels, of rites that were both obscene and blasphemous.