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A shot made with the object balls in an anchor space.

In the balk-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 inches by 3½, lying along a cushion and bisected transversely by a balk line. Object balls in an anchor space are treated as in balk.

A detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck at night when a vessel is at anchor.

The hold or grip of an anchor, or that to which it holds.

Fit for anchorage.

The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.

Anchor-shaped.

Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue.

A female anchoret. And there, a saintly anchoress, she dwelt. Wordsworth.

One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for religious reasons; a hermit; a recluse. [Written by some authors anachoret.] Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle.

Pertaining to an anchoret or hermit; after the manner of an anchoret.

Hermitlike.

The practice or mode of life of an anchoret.

Same as Anchoret.

An anchoress. [R.]

Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.

h, of the Herring family (Engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the Mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. The name is also applied to several allied species.

A West Indian fruit like the mango in taste, sometimes pickled; also, the tree (Grias cauliflora) bearing this fruit.

A resinoid coloring matter obtained from alkanet root.

To affect or be affected with anchylosis; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one. [Spelt also ankylose.] Owen.