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| haggard [ hággərd ] |
adjective |
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1. tired-looking: showing signs of tiredness, anxiety, or hunger on the face, e.g. dark rings around the eyes
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2. wild: wild and unruly in appearance
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3. birds unmanageable: in falconry, used to describe a hawk that has reached maturity before being captured and is therefore wild and unmanageable
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noun (plural haggards) |
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hawk: in falconry, a captured wild adult hawk
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| [Late 16th century. < French hagard 'untamed' (used of hawks)] |
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 haggardly adverb |
| haggardness noun |
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