her|mit

her|mit
her|mit «HUR miht», noun.
1. a person who goes away from other people, and lives by himself; recluse. A hermit often lives a religious life. »

Hermit hoar in solemn cell (Samuel Johnson).

SYNONYM(S): eremite, anchorite.
2. any one of various animals of solitary habits, such as the hermit crab.
3. a spiced, brown sugar, drop cookie, usually containing raisins and nuts.
4. Obsolete. a beadsman.
[< Old French hermite < Late Latin ērēmita < Greek erēmēs < erêmos uninhabited. See etym. of doublet eremite. (Cf.eremite)]
her´mit|like´, adjective.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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