noun. A person who has withdrawn from society and lives a solitary existence; a recluse.

noun. A cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts.

noun. One who dwells alone, or with but few companions, in a desert or other solitary place, for religious meditation, or from a desire to avoid society. See anchoret.

noun. A beadsman; one bound to pray for another.

noun. In zoology, one of sundry animals of solitary or secluded habits. See the compounds.

noun. A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives.

noun. A beadsman; one bound to pray for another.

noun. A spiced molasses cookie, often containing chopped raisins and nuts.

noun. a marine decapod crustacean of the family Paguridæ. 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.

noun. an American thrush (Turdus Pallasii), with retiring habits, but having a sweet song.

noun. a California wood warbler (Dendroica occidentalis), having the head yellow, the throat black, and the back gray, with black streaks.

noun. A religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite.

noun. A recluse; someone who lives alone and shuns human companionship.

noun. A spiced cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts.

noun. one retired from society for religious reasons

noun. one who lives in solitude

"The Underneath acknowledges that the hermit is evil."

false hermit  monachos  monk  

hermit crab  hermitage  hermitize  

eremite  

Dermot  

anchorite  ascetic  bard  beggar  clergyman  

Albigensian  Catharist  Diogenes  Franciscan  Hieronymian