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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A young or untrained hawk or falcon.

2. A fierce, intractable creature. I have loved this proud disdainful haggard. Shak.

3. A hag. [Obs.] Garth.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A stackyard. [Prov. Eng.] Swift.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk. [Obs.] Shak

2. 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.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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