Meaning of HAGGARD
| Pronunciation: | | 'hagurd
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- [adj] 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"
- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | bony, cadaverous, careworn, drawn, emaciated, gaunt, lean, pinched, raddled, skeletal, thin, tired, wasted, worn |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
\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.
\Hag"gard\, n. [See {1st Haw}, {Hedge}, and {Yard} an
inclosed space.]
A stackyard. [Prov. Eng.] --Swift.
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| | Definition: | | Seeing a haggard face in your dreams, suggests that you are growing tiresome or weary of a situation
Dreaming that your own face has grown haggard, forewarns that you may be stricken with an illness. You may be under a tremendous amount of stress. |
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