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To do chores. [U. S.]

St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.

See Choreus.

Pertaining to choregraphy.

The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes. Craig.

Of the nature of, or pertaining to, chorea; convulsive.

Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his change or authority.

A "country" or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.

a trochee.

See Anchoret, Anchoretic. [Obs.]

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.

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.

A concession made for the purpose of retorting with greater force.

The Muse who presided over the choral song and the dance, especially the latter.

Of or pertaining to Terpsichore; of or pertaining to dancing.

-- The anchor is awash, when it is hove up to the surface of the water. -- At anchor, anchored. -- To back an anchor, to increase the holding power by laying down a small anchor ahead of that by which the ship rides, with the cable fastened to the crown of the latter to prevent its coming home. -- To cast anchor, t…