Part 5258

<note>&hand; A vessel or tube is <i>hermetically</i> sealed when it is closed completely against the passage of air or other fluid by fusing the extremity; -- sometimes less properly applied to any air-tight closure.</note>

<h1>Hermit</h1> <Xpage=688>

<hw>Her"mit</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>ermite</ets>, <ets>eremite</ets>, <ets>heremit</ets>, <ets>heremite</ets>, F. <ets>hermite</ets>, <ets>ermite</ets>, L. <ets>eremita</ets>, Gr. <?/, fr. <?/ lonely, solitary. Cf. <er>Eremite</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives.</def>

<blockquote>He had been Duke of Savoy, and after a very glorious reign, took on him the habit of a <b>hermit</b>, and retired into this solitary spot. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A beadsman; one bound to pray for another.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "We rest your <i>hermits</i>."

<i>Shak.</i>

<cs><col>Hermit crab</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a marine decapod crustacean of the family <spn>Pagurid\'91</spn>. The species are numerous, and belong to many genera. Called also <altname>soldier crab</altname>. The hermit crabs usually occupy the dead shells of various univalve mollusks. See <i>Illust<i>. of <er>Commensal</er>.</cd> -- <col>Hermit thrush</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>an American thrush (<spn>Turdus Pallasii</spn>), with retiring habits, but having a sweet song.</cd> -- <col>Hermit warbler</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a California wood warbler (<spn>Dendroica occidentalis</spn>), having the head yellow, the throat black, and the back gray, with black streaks.</cd></cs>

<h1>Hermitage</h1> <Xpage=688>

<hw>Her"mit*age</hw> <tt>(?; 48)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>hermitage</ets>, <ets>ermitage</ets>, F. <ets>hermitage</ets>, <ets>ermitage</ets>. See <er>Hermit</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The habitation of a hermit; a secluded residence.</def> <-- (Capitalized) The name given by Catherine II to a part of the Czars' Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, now an art museum with a very large collection of old master paintings -->

<blockquote>Some forlorn and naked <b>hermitage</b>, Remote from all the pleasures of the world. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <ety>[F. <ets>Vin de l'Hermitage</ets>.]</ety> <def>A celebrated French wine, both white and red, of the Department of Dr\'93me.</def>

<h1>Hermitary</h1> <Xpage=688>

<hw>Her"mit*a*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. LL. <ets>hermitorium</ets>, <ets>eremitorium</ets>.]</ety> <def>A cell annexed to an abbey, for the use of a hermit.</def>

<i>Howell.</i>

<h1>Hermitess</h1> <Xpage=688>

<hw>Her"mit*ess</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A female hermit.</def>

<i>Coleridge.</i>

<h1>Hermitical</h1> <Xpage=688>

<hw>Her*mit"i*cal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to, or suited for, a hermit.</def>

<i>Coventry.</i>

<h1>Hermodactyl</h1> <Xpage=688>

<hw>Her`mo*dac"tyl</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL. <ets>hermodactylus</ets>, lit., Hermes' finger; fr. Gr. <?/ Hermes + <?/ finger.]</ety> <fld>(med.)</fld> <def>A heart-shaped bulbous root, about the size of a finger, brought from Turkey, formerly used as a cathartic.</def>

<h1>Hermogenian</h1> <Xpage=688>

<hw>Her`mo*ge"ni*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Eccl. Hist.)</fld> <def>A disciple of <i>Hermogenes</i>, and heretical teacher who lived in Africa near the close of the second century. He ha<?/d matter to be the fountain of all evil, and that souls and spirits are formed of corrupt matter.</def>

<h1>Hern</h1> <Xpage=688>

<hw>Hern</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A heron; esp., the common European heron.</def> "A stately <i>hern</i>."

<i>Trench.</i>

<h1>Hernani</h1> <Xpage=688>