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haggard
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Haggard \Hag"gard\ (h[a^]g"g[~e]rd), a. [F. hagard; of German origin, and prop. meaning, of the hegde or woods, wild, untamed. See Hedge, 1st Haw, and -ard.]
Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk. [Obs.]
--Shak.-
[For hagged, fr. hag a witch, influenced by haggard wild.] Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering; hollow-eyed; having the features distorted or wasted by pain; wild and wasted, or anxious in appearance; as, haggard features, eyes.
Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look.
--Dryden.
Haggard \Hag"gard\, n. [See Haggard, a.]
(Falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
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A fierce, intractable creature.
I have loved this proud disdainful haggard.
--Shak. [See Haggard, a., 2.] A hag. [Obs.]
--Garth.
Haggard \Hag"gard\, n. [See 1st Haw, Hedge, and Yard an
inclosed space.]
A stackyard. [Prov. Eng.]
--Swift.
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-, from PIE root *kagh- "to catch, seize;" also "wickerwork, fence" (see hedge (n.)). OED, however, finds this whole derivation "very doubtful." Sense perhaps reinforced by Low German hager "gaunt, haggard." Sense of "with a haunted expression" first recorded 1690s, that of "careworn" first recorded 1853. Sense influenced by association with hag. Related: Haggardly; haggardness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition 2 wild or untamed n. 1 (context dialect Isle of Mann Ireland English) A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc. 2 (context falconry English) A hunting bird captured as an adult. 3 (context falconry English) A young or untrained hawk or falcon. 4 (context obsolete English) A fierce, intractable creature. 5 (context obsolete English) A hag.
WordNet
adj. showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens [syn: careworn, drawn, raddled, worn]
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, pinched, skeletal, wasted]
Wikipedia
Haggard is a German neo-classical metal musical group founded in 1989. The group combines classical music and early music with death metal.
Haggard may refer to:
Haggard is a British TV Comedy Series, which aired from 1990 to 1992. Starring Keith Barron, Reece Dinsdale, Sam Kelly and future Heartbeat Star, William Simons.
It was made for the ITV network by Yorkshire Television, and based on Squire Haggard’s Journal by Michael Green, more famous for his The Art of Coarse... books.
The series is set during 1777—1778, in the Georgian era, and was about the exploits of Squire Haggard, the Squire's 25-year-old son Roderick, and their servant Grunge.
Fanny Foulacre, Roderick's girlfriend, makes asides to the camera, commenting upon the situations she finds herself in.
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.