Word Meanings - ANCHORESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A female anchoret. And there, a saintly anchoress, she dwelt. Wordsworth.

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• FEMALE
  A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• ANCHORET; ANCHORITE
  One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle.
• THERETO
  1. To that or this. Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer.
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• THEREOUT
  1. Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. Lev. ii. 2. 2. On the outside; out of doors. Chaucer.
• THEREUNDER
  Under that or this.
• THEREAFTER
  1. After that; afterward. 2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison,
• THERE-ANENT
  Concerning that.
• ANCHORESS
  A female anchoret. And there, a saintly anchoress, she dwelt. Wordsworth.
• DWELT
  of Dwell.
• THEREOF
  Of that or this. In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Gen. ii.
• THEREFOR
  For that, or this; for it. With certain officers ordained therefore. Chaucer.
• THEREFROM
  From this or that. Turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left. John. xxiii. 6.
• THEREUNTO
  Unto that or this; thereto; besides. Shak.
• ANCHORETISM
  The practice or mode of life of an anchoret.
• FEMALE FERN
  a common species of fern with large decompound fronds , growing in many countries; lady fern. Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn.
• THEREINTO
  Into that or this, or into that place. Bacon. Let not them . . . enter thereinto. Luke xxi. 21.
• THERE
  OHG. dar, Sw. & Dan. der, Icel. & Goth. Þar, Skr. tarhi then, and E. 1. In or at that place. " there left me and my man, both bound together." Shak. The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
• THEREIN
  In that or this place, time, or thing; in that particular or respect. Wyclif. He pricketh through a fair forest, Therein is many a wild beast. Chaucer. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. Gen. ix. Therein our letters do not
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• UNDWELT
  Not lived ; -- with in.
• ETHEREALITY
  The state of being ethereal; etherealness. Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
• ETHEREALLY
  In an ethereal manner.
• PINFEATHERED
  Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed.
• DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
  A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
• ETHEREAL
  Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts. Ethereal oil. See Essential oil, under Essential. -- Ethereal oil of wine , a heavy, yellow, oily liquid consisting essentially of etherin, etherol, and ethyl sulphate. It
• FEATHERED
  Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog. (more info) 1. Clothed, covered, or fitted with feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow. Rise from the ground like feathered
• GATHERER
  An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects.
• LATHEREEVE; LATHREEVE
  Formerly, the head officer of a lathe. See 1st Lathe.