Go to MSN Homeencarta®
Dictionary
Find
in
Dictionary
Thesaurus
Translations
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Click to move up the list of words
hag
hag-ridden
Hagar
hagbut
Hagerstown
hagfish
Haggadah
Haggai
haggard
haggis
haggle
hagio-
hagiocracy
Hagiographa
hagiographer
hagiography
hagiolatry
Click to move down the list of words
Also available:

World English Dictionary
Dictionnaire Français

haggard
hag·gard [ hággərd ]


adjective 
Definition:
 
1. tired-looking: showing signs of tiredness, anxiety, or hunger on the face, e.g. dark rings around the eyes
2. unruly: wild and unruly in appearance
3. birds unmanageable: in falconry, used to describe a hawk that has reached maturity before being captured and is therefore wild and unmanageable


noun  (plural hag·gards)
Definition:
 
hawk: in falconry, a captured wild adult hawk
[Late 16th century. < French hagard "untamed" (used of hawks)]

hag·gard·ly [ hággərdlee ] adverb
hag·gard·ness [ hággərdnəss ] noun
Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition] © & (P)2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Advertisement
© 2009 Microsoft