Hag"gis (-gs), n. [Scot. hag to hack, chop, E. hack. Formed, perhaps,
in imitation of the F. hachis (E. hash), fr. hacher.] A Scotch pudding
made of the heart, liver, lights, etc., of a sheep or lamb, minced with
suet, onions, oatmeal, etc., highly seasoned, and boiled in the stomach
of the same animal; minced head and pluck. [Written also haggiss,
haggess, and haggies.]
Hag"gish (-gsh), a. Like a hag; ugly; wrinkled.
But on us both did haggish age steal on.
Shak.
Hag"gish*ly, adv. In the manner of a hag.
Hag"gle (hg"g'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haggled (-g'ld); p. pr. & vb. n.
Haggling (-glng).] [Freq. of Scot. hag, E. hack. See Hack to cut.] 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.
Hag"gle, v. i. To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small
matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.
Walpole.
Hag"gle, n. The act or process of haggling. Carlyle.
Hag"gler (hg"glr), n. 1. One who haggles or is difficult in bargaining.
2. One who forestalls a market; a middleman between producer and dealer
in London vegetable markets.
Ha"gi*ar`chy (h"j*‰r`k), n. [Gr. "a`gios sacred, holy + - archy.] A
sacred government; government by holy orders of men. Southey.
Ha`gi*oc"ra*cy (-k"r*s), n. [Gr. "a`gios holy, and kratei^n to govern.]
Government by a priesthood; hierarchy.
||Ha`gi*og"ra*pha (-g"r*f), n. pl. [L., fr. Gr. "agio`grafa (sc.
||bibli`a), fr. "agio`grafos written by inspiration; "a`gios sacred,
||holy + gra`fein to write.] 1. 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.