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Hoar. [Obs.] Chaucer.

nic, used as a household remedy for colds, coughing, etc. [Written also hoarhound.] Fetid horehound, or Black horehound, a disagreeable plant resembling horehound (Ballota nigra). -- Water horehound, a species of the genus Lycopus, resembling mint, but not aromatic.

Along the shore or coast.

See Longshoreman.

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.

The part which in some Siphonophora bears the male gonophores.

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

On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat. Here shall I die ashore. Shak. I must fetch his necessaries ashore. Shak.

A female author. Glover.

To corrupt with regard to chastity; to make a whore of. J. Fletcher.

One of the smaller vital units of a cell, the bearer of vitality and heredity. See Pangen, in Supplement.

That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.

A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.

A small South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus, and C. retusus) allied to the armadillo. It is covered with a leathery shell or coat of mail, like a cloak, attached along the spine.