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. - 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 - 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. - 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.