Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hart

Hart (hart) , noun

[Old English hart, hert, heort, Anglo-Saxon heort, heorot; akin to Dutch hert, Old High German hiruz, hirz, German hirsch, Icelandic hjortr, Danish & Swedish hjort, Latin cervus, and prob. to Greek kerao`s horned, ke`ras horn. r230. See Horn.]

(Zoology) A stag; the male of the red deer. See the Note under Buck.
Goodliest of all the forest, hart and hind. — Milton