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Adjective: haggard  ha-gu(r)d
  1. Showing the wearing effects of overwork, care or suffering
    "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness";
    - careworn, drawn, raddled, worn
     
  2. Very thin especially from disease, hunger or cold
    "eyes were haggard and cavernous";
    - cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, pinched, skeletal, wasted
Noun: Haggard  ha-gu(r)d
  1. British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)
    - H. Rider Haggard, Rider Haggard, Sir Henry Rider Haggard

See also: lean, meager [N. Amer], meagre [Brit, Cdn], thin, tired

Type of: author, writer

Encyclopedia: Haggard, Merle