The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hermit \Her"mit\, n. [OE. ermite, eremite, heremit, heremite, F. hermite, ermite, L. eremita, Gr. ?, fr. ? lonely, solitary. Cf. Eremite.]
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A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives.
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. A beadsman; one bound to pray for another. [Obs.] ``We rest your hermits.''
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(Cookery) A spiced molasses cookie, often containing chopped raisins and nuts.
Hermit crab (Zo["o]l.), a marine decapod crustacean of the family Pagurid[ae]. The species are numerous, and belong to many genera. Called also soldier crab. The hermit crabs usually occupy the dead shells of various univalve mollusks. See Illust. of Commensal.
Hermit thrush (Zo["o]l.), an American thrush ( Turdus Pallasii), with retiring habits, but having a sweet song.
Hermit warbler (Zo["o]l.), a California wood warbler ( Dendroica occidentalis), having the head yellow, the throat black, and the back gray, with black streaks.
WordNet
n. North American thrush noted for its complex and appealing song [syn: Hylocichla guttata]
Wikipedia
The hermit thrush (Catharus guttatus) is a medium-sized North American thrush. It is not very closely related to the other North American migrant species of Catharus, but rather to the Mexican russet nightingale-thrush.
The specific name guttatus is Latin for "spotted".
The hermit thrush is a bird native to North America. Hermit Thrush may also refer to:
- Hermit Thrush (band), an American folk band active in the mid 1990s whose members later formed the band Dispatch
- Thrush Hermit, a Canadian alternative rock band active in the 1990s
Usage examples of "hermit thrush".
Then a catbird and a brown thrush sang against a grosbeak and a hermit thrush.
A hermit thrush sang in the high treetopsa clear, sparkling liquid sound, pure and sweet.
Back in the deep woods a hermit thrush was singing his chant to the rising sun.
A hermit thrush, on the tip of a balsam, uttered his long, liquid, evening note.
And it was hidden as cunningly from casual eyes as ever was a hermit thrush's nest.
It led them into real forest, where deep, dark pools lay, where the hermit thrush and the wood robin extracted the essence from all other bird melody, and poured it out in their pure bell-tone notes.
Now the strident cry of a water bird ripped up the silence and was joined by the high lonesome tune of a hermit thrush.