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A plant of the genus Prunus (P. Padus); the bird cherry. [Scot.]

Born of a hag or witch. Shak.

A harquebus, of which the but was bent down or hooked for convenience in taking aim. [Written also haguebut and hackbuss.]

A soldier armed with a hagbut or arquebus. [Written also hackbutter.] Froude.

he genus Puffinus; esp., P. major, the greater shearwarter, and P. Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater; -- called also hagdown, haglin, and hag. See Shearwater.

See Hag, 4.

gend in the Talmud, to explain or illustrate the text of the Old Testament. [Written also hadaga.]

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

In a haggard manner. Dryden.

Like a hag; lean; ugly. [R.]

soned, and boiled in the stomach of the same animal; minced head and pluck. [Written also haggiss, haggess, and haggies.]

Like a hag; ugly; wrinkled. But on both did haggish age steal on. Shak.

In the manner of a hag.

To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood. Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped. Shak.

One who haggles or is difficult in bargaining.

A sacred government; by holy orders of men. Southey.

Government by a priesthood; hierarchy.

The last of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, or that portion not contained in the Law and the Prophets. It comprises Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles.

, Pertaining to the hagiographa, or to sacred writings.

One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints. Shipley.