haggard

Etymology 1

From Middle French haggard, from Old French faulcon hagard (“wild falcon”) ( > French hagard (“dazed”)), from Middle High German hag (“coppice”) ( > archaic German Hag (“hedge, grove”)). Akin to Frankish *hagia ( > French haie (“hedge”))

adj

1. 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.
   Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look. 1685, John Dryden, The Despairing Lover
   I looked at the morning / After being up all night / I looked at my haggard face in the bathroom light / I looked out the window / And I saw that ragged soul take flight 1976, Joni Mitchell (lyrics and music), “Black Crow”, in Hejira
   By the end of two weeks there isn't a county in England where he hasn't pledged his holiness six different ways — which is not to deny that intermittently he has visions of himself as a haggard apostle of the life renounced, converting beautiful women and millionaires to Christian poverty. 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy
2. (of an animal) Wild or untamed
   a haggard or refractory hawk

noun

1. (falconry) A hunting bird captured as an adult.
   1856, John Henry Walsh, Manual of British Rural Sports HAGGARDS may be trapped in this country but with the square-net, or the bow-net, but in either case great difficulty is experienced
2. (falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
3. (obsolete) A fierce, intractable creature.
4. (obsolete) A hag.
   In a dark Grott the baleful Haggard lay, Breathing black Vengeance, and infecting Day 1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary

Etymology 2

Old Norse heygarðr (“hay-yard”)

noun

1. (dialect, Isle of Man, Ireland, Scotland) 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