Haggard

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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}.]
     1. Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty;
        untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     2. [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.
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              Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look.
                                                    --Dryden.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Haggard \Hag"gard\, n. [See {Haggard}, a.]
     1. (Falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
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     2. A fierce, intractable creature.
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              I have loved this proud disdainful haggard. --Shak.
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     3. [See {Haggard}, a., 2.] A hag. [Obs.] --Garth.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Haggard \Hag"gard\, n. [See 1st {Haw}, {Hedge}, and {Yard} an
     inclosed space.]
     A stackyard. [Prov. Eng.] --Swift.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  haggard
       adj 1: 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}]
       2: 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}]
       n : British writer noted for romantic adventure novels
           (1856-1925) [syn: {Rider Haggard}, {Sir Henry Rider
           Haggard}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  181 Moby Thesaurus words for "haggard":
     abandoned, achromatic, achromic, amok, anemic, angular, ashen,
     ashy, attenuated, bellowing, berserk, bigoted, bled white,
     bloodless, blue, cadaverous, careworn, carried away, chloranemic,
     colorless, corpselike, dead, deadly, deadly pale, deathlike,
     deathly, deathly pale, delirious, demoniac, dim, dimmed, dingy,
     discolored, distracted, drawn, dull, ecstatic, eerie, emacerated,
     emaciate, emaciated, enraptured, etiolated, exhausted,
     exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, extravagant, extreme,
     extremist, faded, fagged, faint, fallow, fanatic, fatigued, feral,
     ferocious, fierce, flat, frantic, frenzied, fulminating, furious,
     gaunt, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, gray, grisly, gruesome,
     hog-wild, hollow-eyed, howling, hueless, hypochromic, hysterical,
     in a transport, in hysterics, inordinate, intoxicated, irrational,
     jejune, lackluster, lank, leaden, lean, livid, lurid, lusterless,
     macabre, mad, madding, maniac, marantic, marasmic, mat, mealy,
     mortuary, muddy, neutral, orgasmic, orgiastic, overenthusiastic,
     overreligious, overzealous, pale, pale as death, pale-faced,
     pallid, pasty, peaked, peaky, perfervid, pinched, played out, poor,
     possessed, puny, rabid, raging, ramping, ranting, ravaged, raving,
     ravished, roaring, run-down, running mad, sallow, scraggy, scrawny,
     shriveled, shrunken, sickly, skeletal, skinny, spare, spent,
     starved, starveling, storming, tabetic, tabid, tallow-faced, tired,
     tired-eyed, tired-faced, tired-looking, toneless, transported,
     ultrazealous, uncanny, uncolored, uncontrollable, underfed,
     undernourished, unearthly, unreasonable, violent, wan, washed-out,
     wasted, waxen, weak, wearied, weary, weary-looking, weazeny, weird,
     whey-faced, white, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, withered,
     wizened, worn, worn-down, wraithlike, zealotic