Haggard
adj, name, noun ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A hunting bird captured as an adult.
"No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful; I know her spirits are as coy and wild As haggards of the rock."
- 2 A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc. Ireland, Scotland, dialectal
"He tuk a slew [swerve] round the haggard http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/am1924/pt_s.htm"
- 3 A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
- 4 A fierce, intractable creature. obsolete
"I have loved this proud disdainful haggard."
- 5 A hag. obsolete
"In a dark Grott the baleful Haggard lay, Breathing black Vengeance, and infecting Day"
- 1 Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition
"Pale and haggard faces."
- 2 Wild or untamed
"a haggard or refractory hawk"
- 1 very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold wordnet
- 2 showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering wordnet
- 1 A surname.
- 2 An unincorporated community in Gray County, Kansas, United States.
Example
More examples"It was a pale, wild, haggard face, in a great cloud of black hair, pressed against the glass."
Etymology
From Middle French haggard, from Old French faulcon hagard (“wild falcon”) ( > French hagard (“dazed”)), from Middle High German hag (“coppice”) ( > archaic German Hag (“hedge, grove”)). Akin to Frankish *hagia ( > French haie (“hedge”))
From Old Norse heygarðr (“hay-yard”).
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