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Haggard

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Noun

1. haggard, rider haggard, sir henry rider haggard

British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)

Adjective

2. careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled, worn

showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering

Example Sentences:
'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'

3. bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted

very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

Example Sentences:
'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'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Haggard

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adjective
1. 
careworn or gaunt, as from lack of sleep, anxiety, or starvation
2. 
wild or unruly
3. 
(of a hawk) having reached maturity in the wild before being caught
noun
4. falconry
a hawk that has reached maturity before being caught
Compare eyas, passage hawk
noun
(in Ireland and the Isle of Man) an enclosure beside a farmhouse in which crops are stored
noun
Sir (Henry) Rider. 1856–1925, British author of romantic adventure stories, including King Solomon's Mines (1885)

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Haggard

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Sir H(enry) Rider1856-1925; Eng. novelist
adjective
1.  Falconry
designating a hawk captured after reaching maturity
2. 
untamed; unruly; wild
3. 
a. 
wild-eyed
b. 
having a wild, wasted, worn look, as from sleeplessness, grief, or illness; gaunt; drawn
noun
4.  Falconry
a haggard hawk

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Haggard

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British writer whose romantic adventure novels include King Solomon's Mines (1885).
adj.
1. Exhausted or distraught and often gaunt in appearance.
2. Wild and intractable. Used of a hawk in falconry.
n.
An adult hawk captured for training.

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