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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.

A support or column on which stamens are raised. Gray.

A spore of some algæ, which has male functions.

Fertilized by the agency of the wind; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by the wind; wind- Fertilized. Lubbock.

Having spores contained in cells or thecæ, as in the case of some fungi.

A earthworm of the genus Lumbricus, frequently used by anglers for bait. See Earthworm.

Great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression.

A city of Asia Minor (or Anatolia) which has given its name to a goat, a cat, etc. Angora cat (Zoöl.), a variety of the domestic cat with very long and silky hair, generally of the brownish white color. Called also Angola cat. See Cat. -- Angora goat (Zoöl.), a variety of the domestic goat, reared for its long silky h…