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