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The state of a hermit; a living in seclusion from social life.

A hermit. [Obs.]

A hermit. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Of or pertaining to a hermit; solitary; secluded from society. Pope.

ks, a firm, chitinous coating on shells and stones, and esp. on spiral shells occupied by hermit crabs. See Illust. of Athecata.

One belonging of the mediæval religious orders called Hermits of St. Jerome. [Written also Hieronymite.]

A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior. C. Kingsley.

of a rock for a garden, and, by laying on it earth, furnished out a kind of luxury for a hermit. Addison.

One of an austere order of mendicant hermits of friars founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of Paola.

Any one of a tribe of anomuran crustaceans, of which Pagurus is a type; the hermit crab. See Hermit crab, under Hermit.

wealth; riches. -- Purse crab (Zoöl.), any land crab of the genus Birgus, allied to the hermit crabs. They sometimes weigh twenty pounds or more, and are very strong, being able to crack cocoanuts with the large claw. They chiefly inhabit the tropical islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, living in holes and feed…

tired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life In meditation deep, recluse From human converse. J. Philips.

The habitation of a recluse; a hermitage.

om by force; to strip by stealing; to plunder; to pillage; to steal from. Who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish Milton. He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robbed at all. Shak. To be executed for robbing a church. Shak.…

A Turkish saint; a kind of dervish, regarded by the people as a saint: also, a hermit.

s spinosus). These bugs suck the blood of other insects. -- Soldier crab (Zoöl.) (a) The hermit crab. (b) The fiddler crab. -- Soldier fish (Zoöl.), a bright-colored etheostomoid fish (Etheostoma coeruleum) found in the Mississippi River; -- called also blue darter, and rainbow darter. -- Soldier fly (Zoöl.), any on…

A person who lives in solitude; a recluse; a hermit. Pope.

A hermit; a solitary. [Obs.] Sir R. Twisden.

One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret; a hermit; a recluse.

losing her in a sphere by herself. Hawthorne. Each in his hidden sphere of joy or woe Our hermit spirits dwell. Keble.