Haggard vs. Haggart

Haggardadjective

Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition

‘Pale and haggard faces.’; ‘A gradual descent into a haggard and feeble state.’; ‘The years of hardship made her look somewhat haggard.’;

Haggartnoun

A farmyard or small enclosed field; a vegetable patch or kitchen garden.

Haggardadjective

Wild or untamed

‘a haggard or refractory hawk’;

Haggart

Haggart may refer to:

Haggardnoun

(falconry) A hunting bird captured as an adult.

Haggardnoun

(falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.

Haggardnoun

(obsolete) A fierce, intractable creature.

Haggardnoun

(obsolete) A hag.

Haggardnoun

A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.

‘He tuk a slew [swerve] round the haggard [http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/am1924/pt_s.htm]’;

Haggardadjective

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

Haggardadjective

Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering; hollow-eyed; having the features distorted or wasted by pain; wild and wasted, or anxious in appearance; as, haggard features, eyes.

‘Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look.’;

Haggardnoun

A young or untrained hawk or falcon.

Haggardnoun

A fierce, intractable creature.

‘I have loved this proud disdainful haggard.’;

Haggardnoun

A hag.

Haggardnoun

A stackyard.

Haggardnoun

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

Haggardadjective

showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering;

‘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’;

Haggardadjective

very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;

‘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’;