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One of the descendants of Esau or Edom, the brother of Jacob; an Idumean.

A dweller in Flam (or Susiana), an ancient kingdom of Southwestern Asia, afterwards a province of Persia.

Native sulphate of magnesia or Epsom salt.

A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.

Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n.

Fumitory. [Obs.]

A gothamist.

One who follows the dietetic system of Graham. [U. S.]

A yellow amorphous mineral, essentially a hydrated oxide of uranium derived from the alteration of uraninite.

A fossil cephalopod of the genus Hamites, related to the ammonites, but having the last whorl bent into a hooklike form.

The aquatic larva of a large American winged insect (Corydalus cornutus), much used a fish bait by anglers; the dobson. It belongs to the Neuroptera.

A hermit. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A female hermit. Coleridge.

See Jeronymite.

A mineral of a transparent vitreous brown color, found in the ejected masses of Vesuvius. It is a silicate of iron and magnesia, containing fluorine.

See Apophyllite. [R.]

Not limited; interminable. Bp. Hall. -- Il*lim"it*ed*ness, n. The absoluteness and illimitedness of his commission was generally much spoken of. Clarendon.

Not tamed; untamed; savage; wild. [Obs.] J. Salkeld.

A Mohammedan.

A laminated, granular, siliceous rocks, often occurring in regions where the diamond is found.