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A hermit. [Obs.]

. He had been Duke of Savoy, and after a very glorious reign, took on him the habit of a hermit, and retired into this solitary spot. Addison.

The habitation of a hermit; a secluded residence. Some forlorn and naked hermitage, Remote from all the pleasures of the world. Shak.

A cell annexed to an abbey, for the use of a hermit. Howell.

A female hermit. Coleridge.

Pertaining to, or suited for, a hermit. Coventry.

se to cease for a time, or at intervals; to interrupt; to suspend. Pray to the gods to intermit the plague. Shak.

Act or state of intermitting; intermission. Tyndall.

Coming and going at intervals; alternating; recurrent; periodic; as, an intermittent fever. Boyle. Intermittent fever (Med.), a disease with fever which recurs at certain intervals; -- applied particularly to fever and ague. See Fever. -- Intermittent gearing (Mach.), gearing which receives, or produces, intermittent…

With intermissions; in an intermittent manner; intermittingly.

With intermissions; at intervals. W. Montagu.

A hydrous borate of lime, near priceite.

e; to tolerate; to put up with. What things God doth neither command nor forbid . . . he permitteth with approbation either to be done or left undone. Hooker.

The act of permitting; allowance; permission; leave. Milton.

One to whom a permission or permit is given.

One who permits. A permitter, or not a hinderer, of sin. J. Edwards.

See Pretermit.

To pass by; to omit; to disregard. Bacon.

The hard integument of Crustacea.

Any one of numerous species of pseudoneoropterous insects belonging to Termes and allied genera; -- called also white ant. See Illust. of White ant.