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Hagard


HAG'ARD, adjective

1. Literally, having a ragged look, as if hacked or gashed. Hence, lean; meager; rough; having eyes sunk in their orbits; ugly.

2. Wild; fierce; intractable; as a hagard hawk.

HAG'ARD, noun

1. Any thing wild and intractable.

2. A species of hawk.

3. A hag.