haggard : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: haggard	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for haggard
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
haggard 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 Synonym(s): careworn, drawn, haggard, 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" Synonym(s): bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted n British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925) Synonym(s): Haggard, Rider Haggard, Sir Henry Rider Haggard
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Haggard \Hag"gard\, 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. 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, or anxious in appearance; as, haggard features, eyes. Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Haggard \Hag"gard\, n. [See {Haggard}, a.] 1. (Falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon. 2. A fierce, intractable creature. I have loved this proud disdainful haggard. --Shak. 3. [See {Haggard}, a., 2.] A hag. [Obs.] --Garth.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Haggard \Hag"gard\, n. [See {1st Haw}, {Hedge}, and {Yard} an inclosed space.] A stackyard. [Prov. Eng.] --Swift.