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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.

2. (R. C. Ch.) The lives of the saints. Brande & C.

Ha`gi*og"ra*phal (-fal), Pertaining to the hagiographa, or to sacred writings.

Ha`gi*og"ra*pher (-fr), n. One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints. Shipley.

Ha`gi*og"ra*phy (-f; 277), n. Same as Hagiographa.

Ha`gi*ol"a*try (-l"*tr), n. [Gr. "a`gios sacred + latrei`a worship.] The invocation or worship of saints.

Ha`gi*ol"o*gist (-*jst), n. One who treats of the sacred writings; a writer of the lives of the saints; a hagiographer. Tylor.

Hagiologists have related it without scruple.

Southey.

Ha`gi*ol"o*gy (-j), n. [Gr. "a`gios sacred + -logy.] The history or description of the sacred writings or of sacred persons; a narrative of the lives of the saints; a catalogue of saints. J. H. Newman.

Ha"gi*o*scope` (h"j**skp`), n. [Gr. "a`gios sacred + -scope.] An opening made in the interior walls of a cruciform church to afford a view of the altar to those in the transepts; -- called, in architecture, a squint. Hook.

Hag"-rid`den (hg"rd`d'n), a. Ridden by a hag or witch; hence, afflicted with nightmare. Beattie. Cheyne.

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Hag"seed` (hg"sd), n. The offspring of a hag. Shak.

Hag"ship, n. The state or title of a hag. Middleton.

Hag"-ta`per (-t`pr), n. [Cf. 1st Hag, and Hig-taper.] (Bot.) The great woolly mullein (Verbascum Thapsus).

Hague"but (hg"bt), n. See Hagbut.