| Webster's Online Dictionary |
Date "Hagard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Adjective] Literally, having a ragged look, as if hacked or gashed. Hence, lean; meager; rough; having eyes sunk in their orbits; ugly. | 2: [Adjective] Wild; fierce; intractable; as a hagard hawk. | 3: [Noun] Any thing wild and intractable. | 4: [Noun] A species of hawk. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
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