Haggard | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Hăg'gard, a.

adjective

a. [Fr. hagard, Ger. hagart, from O. Eng. hauke, now hawk, and the suffix ard, q. v.; Pr. agner, O. Fr. aguar.]

Sense 1. Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; rough; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk.

If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heartstrings, I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune. Shak.

Sense 2. Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering; having the eyes sunk in their orbits; having the features distorted by pain.

Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look. Dryden.

Hăg'gard, n.

noun

n. [See supra.] 1. An untrained or refractory hawk, which often broke away or flew off. “Wild as haggards of the rock.” Shak.

Any thing wild and intractable. Shak.
A hag; a frightful or ugly old woman. Garth.

Hāg'gard, n.

noun

[A-S. haga, Ger. hag, hedge, a place fenced in, and A-S. geard, yard.] A stack-yard. [Obs.] Swift.