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hag⋅gard

  [hag-erd]
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–adjective
1. having a gaunt, wasted, or exhausted appearance, as from prolonged suffering, exertion, or anxiety; worn: the haggard faces of the tired troops.
2. wild; wild-looking: haggard eyes.
3. Falconry. (esp. of a hawk caught after it has attained adult plumage) untamed.
–noun
4. Falconry. a wild or untamed hawk caught after it has assumed adult plumage.
Origin:
1560–70; orig., wild female hawk. See hag 1 , -ard

Related forms:
hag⋅gard⋅ly, adverb
hag⋅gard⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. emaciated, drawn, hollow-eyed.

Antonyms:
1. robust.
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Hag⋅gard

  [hag-erd]
–noun
(Sir) H(enry) Rider, 1856–1925, English novelist.
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hag·gard   (hāg'ərd)   
adj.  

    1. Appearing worn and exhausted; gaunt.

    2. Wild or distraught in appearance.

  2. Wild and intractable. Used of a hawk in falconry.

n.  An adult hawk captured for training.

[French hagard, wild, from Old French, wild hawk, raptor, perhaps of Germanic origin.]
hag'gard·ly adv., hag'gard·ness n.
Hag·gard   (hāg'ərd)   
British writer whose romantic adventure novels include King Solomon's Mines (1885).
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

haggard 
1567, "wild, unruly," from M.Fr. haggard, probably from O.Fr. faulcon hagard "wild falcon," lit. "falcon of the woods," from M.H.G. hag "hedge, copse, wood," from P.Gmc. *khag-. Sense perhaps reinforced by Low Ger. hager "gaunt, haggard." Sense of "with a haunted expression" first recorded 1697, that of "careworn" first recorded 1853. Sense infl. by association with hag (q.v.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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