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imself, 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.

The part which in some Siphonophora bears the male gonophores.

A spore of some algæ, which has male functions.

A sexual spore in which the sexes differ in size; -- opposed to isospore.

Want of appetite, without a loathing of food. Coxe.

The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family. Gray.

Doubting; skeptical. [Obs.] Cudworth.

Attached to, found in or upon, or frequenting, woods or trees; as, arboreal animals. Woodpeckers are eminently arboreal. Darwin.

Furnished with an arbor; lined with trees. "An arboreal walk." Pollok.

Pertaining to, or growing on, trees; as, arboreous moss. Quincy.

The state of being arborescent; the resemblance to a tree in minerals, or crystallizations, or groups of crystals in that form; as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver.

k; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree. "Arborescent hollyhocks." Evelyn.

A small tree or shrub. [Obs.] Spenser. Among thick-woven arborets, and flowers Imbordered on each bank. Milton.

A place in which a collection of rare trees and shrubs is cultivated for scientific or educational purposes.

Clad with armor.

A man-of-war carrying a large coal supply, and more or less protected from the enemy's shot by iron or steel armor. There is no distinct and accepted classification distinguishing armored and protected cruisers from each other, except that the first have more or heavier armor than the second.

One who makes or repairs armor or arms.