HAGGIS. A dish consisting of a calf's, sheep's or other ani mal's heart, liver and lungs, and also sometimes of the smaller intestines, boiled in the stomach of the animal with seasoning of pepper, salt, onions, etc., chopped fine with suet and oatmeal. It is considered peculiarly a Scottish dish, but was common in England till the i8th century. The derivation of the word is obscure.