Haggard: Definition and part of speech

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Haggard

  1. n. A stackyard.
  2. a. Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk.
  3. a. 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.
  4. a. A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
  5. a. A fierce, intractable creature.
  6. a. A hag.

    7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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