Meaning

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

adjective showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; ; ; ; - Charles Dickens

adjective very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

originFrom 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”))

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0