anchor 
Let us anchor our hopes . . . upon his goodness. 
South, Sermons, VIII. 141. 
The water-lily starts and slides 
1 JMHI the level in little puffs of wind, 
Thu' itnf.lnn-d tu till! bottom. 
Tennyson, Princess, iv. 
H. intrant. 1. To cast anchor ; come to an- 
chor; lie or ride at anchor: as, the ship an- 
chored outside the bar. 
Yon' tall atirlwriiiij hark. Xttak., 1-ear, iv. (i. 
2. Figuratively, to keep hold or be firmly fixed 
in any way. 
Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorage is quick- 
sand, k'tni'i-xnn, Experience. 
anchor 2 t (ang'kqr), n. [The spelling has been 
changed to make it more like anchoret, and 
orig. "anchoreta (cf. anchor 1 ) ; prop, anker, in 
early mod. E. reg. anker, < ME. reg. anker, nn- 
kre, ancre, an anchoret or anchoress, monk or 
nun, < AS. ancra, also, rarely, ancer, ancor (in 
comp. ancer-, ancor-, once anacor-), m., an an- 
choret, also perhaps * 'ancre, t., an anchoress. = 
OS. enkoro = OHQ. einchoro, anchoret, spelled 
as if from OS. en = OHG. ein, one (cf. monk, 
ult. < Gr. fi6vof, one), but all corruptions of ML. 
'anchoreta, anachorita, LL. anachoreta, whence 
the later E. forms anchoret and anchorite, q. v.] 
An anchoret ; a hermit. 
An anchor's cheer in prison be my scope ! 
Shak., Hamlet, iii. 2. 
anchor 3 !, Erroneous spelling of anker 3 . 
anchorablet (ang'kor-a-bl), a. [< anchor! + 
-able.] Fit for anchorage. [Rare.] 
The sea everywhere twenty leagues from land anchor- 
able. Sir T. Uerbert, Travels, p. 40. 
Anchoraceracea (ang'kor-a-se-ra'se-a), n. pi. 
[NL., < Anchoracera (< L. ancora, improp. an- 
chora, anchor (see anchor*, n.), + Gr. nipaf, 
horn) + -acea. ] In Milne-Edwards's system of 
classification, a tribe of parasitic entomostra- 
cous crustaceans, which anchor or fasten them- 
selves to their host by means of hooked lateral 
appendages of the head. The name is approx- 
imately equivalent to one of the divisions of 
LenuEoidea (which see). 
anchorage 1 (ang'kor-aj), . [< anchor 1 + -age; 
suggested by F. atierdge, < ancre.'] 1. Auchor- 
ing-ground; a place where a ship anchors or 
can anchor; a customary place for anchoring. 
The fleet returned to its former anchorage. 
Southey, Life of Nelson, II. 102. 
Early in the morning we weighed anchor and steamed 
up the bay to the man-of-war anchorage. 
Lady Brasgey, Voyage of Sunbeam, I. Iv. 
Hence 2. That to which anything is fastened : 
as, the anchorage of the cables of a suspension- 
bridge. 
Anchorage of a Cable of the East River Bridge, New York. 
--/. suspension-cable ; Jf, anchor-plate. 
3. The anchor and all the necessary tackle for 
anchoring. [Rare.] 
The bark, that hath discharg'd her fraught, 
Returns with precious lading to the bay 
From whence at first she weigh'd her anchorarif. 
Shot., Tit. And., i. 1 
If that supposal should fail us, all our anchorage were 
loose, and we should but wander in a wild sea. Wotton. 
4. A duty imposed on ships for anchoring in a 
harbor; anchorage-dues. 
This corporation, otherwise a poor one, holds also the 
anchorage in the harbour. R. Carew, Survey of Cornwall. 
anchorage 2 (ang'kor-aj), . [< anchor? + -age.} 
The cell or retreat'of an anchoret. 
Anchorastomacea (ang'kgr-a-sto-ma'se-a), n. 
pi. [NL., < L. ancora, improp. anchora, an- 
chor, 4- Gr. ar&ua, mouth, + -acea.] In Milne- 
Edwards's system of classification, a tribe of 
parasitic entomostracous crustaceans, or fish- 
lice, representing a division of the Lernceoidea 
which contains the Chondraeanthidte. The species 
of this group, like the other lemseans, fasten on their host 
by stout hooked appendages like anchors. 
anchorate (ang'kor-at), a. In goal., fixed as if 
anchored. 
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anchor-ball (ang'kor-bal), . A pyrotechnical 
combustible attached to a grapnel for the pur- 
pose of setting fire to ships. Smyth, Sailor's 
Word-book. 
anchor-bolt (ang'kpr-bolt), . A bolt having 
the end of its shank bent or splayed, to pre- 
vent it from being drawn out. 
anchor-buoy (ang'kor-boi), H. A buoy used to 
mark the position of an anchor when on the 
bottom. 
anchor-chock (ang'kor-chok), . 1. A piece 
inserted into a wooden anchor-stock where it 
has become worn or defective. 2. A piece of 
wood or iron on which an anchor rests when it 
is stowed. 
anchor-drag (ang'kor-drag), n. Same as drag- 
sheet. 
anchored (ang'kord), p. a. [Early mod. E. reg. 
ankcred, ankored ; < anchorf, ankerl, + -ed 2 .] 
1. Held by an anchor. 2. Shaped 
like an anchor ; fluked ; forked. 
Shooting her anchored tongue, 
Threatening her veuomed tt-rtli. 
Dr. H. More, Song of the Soul, II. ii. 29. 
3. In her., an epithet applied to a 
cross whose extremities are turned 
back like the flukes of an anchor. 
Equivalent forms are ancree, ancred, anchry. 
Anchorella (ang-ko-rel'a), n. [NL., dim. of L. 
ancora, improp. anchora, anchor: see anchor 1 .] 
A genus of fish-lice, small parasitic crustaceans, 
of the family Lernfeopodidif and order Lerna-oi- 
dea : so called from the appendages by which, 
like other lernseans, the animal fastens itself on 
its host. There are several species, parasitic upon fishes. 
The genus is sometimes made the type of a family An- 
rhoreilida 1 . 
Anchorellidse (ang-ko-rel'i-de), n. pi. [NL., 
< Anchorella + -id(f.] A family of lernsean 
crustaceans, or fish-lice, typified by the genus 
Anchorella. Also spelled Anchorelladce. 
anchoress, anchoritess (ang'kor-es, -i-tes), n. 
[Early mod. E. reg. ankress, ancress, < ME. 
ankrcsse, ankrisse, ankres: see anchor 1 *, anker%, 
and -ens.] A female anchoret. 
She is no anchored, she dwells not alone. 
Latiiner, 4th Serm. bef. Edw. VI. (1549). 
Pega, his sUter, an Anchoritesi, led a solitary life. 
Fuller, Church Hist., li. 96. 
anchoret, anchorite (ang'ko-ret, -rit), . [Ear- 
ly mod. E. anclntret, -tie, -it, usually -ite, also 
anachoret, etc., < ME. ancorite, < OF. anacho- 
rete, mod. F. anachorete, < LL. anachoreta, 
ML. also anachorita, < Gr. ava^u/nrri/f, a re- 
cluse, lit. one retired, < avaxupelv, retire. < ana, 
back, + x u P elv i withdraw, make room, \ x&poc, 
room, space. The form anchoret has taken the 
place of the earlier anchor' 2 , anker' 2 , q. v.] A 
hermit ; a recluse ; one who retires from society 
into a desert or solitary place, to avoid the 
temptations of the world and to devote himself 
to contemplation and religious exercises. Also 
anachoret. 
Macarius, the great Egyptian anchoret. 
Abp. Ussher, Ans. to a Jesuit. 
To an ordinary layman the life of the anchorite might 
appear in the highest degree opposed to that of the Teacher 
who began His mission in a marriage feast. 
Lecky, Europ. Morals, II. 111. 
= Syn. Munk, Hermit, Anchoret. In the classification 
of religious ascetics, monk* are those who adopt a se- 
cluded habit of life, but dwell more or less in communi- 
ties ; hermits, or eremites, those who withdraw to desert 
places, but do not deny themselves shelter or occupation ; 
and anchorets, those most excessive in their austerities, 
who choose the most absolute solitude, and subject them- 
selves to the greatest privations. 
anchoretic (ang-ko-ret'ik), a. [< anchoret + 
-ic, after anachoreiical, q. v.] Pertaining to an 
anchoret, or to his mode of life. Equivalent 
forms are anchoretical, anchoritic, anchoritical. 
anchoretical (ang-ko-ret'i-kal), a. [< ancho- 
retic.] Same as anchoretic. 
anchoretish (ang'ko-ret-ish), a. [< anchoret + 
-ish 1 .] Of or pertaining to an anchoret, or to 
his mode of life ; anchoretic. Also anchoritish. 
Sixty years of religious reverie and anchoritish self- 
denial. De yuincey, Autobiographical Sketches, I. 134. 
anchoretism (ang'ko-ret-izm), n. [< anchoret 
+ -ism.] The state of being secluded from the 
world; the condition of an anchoret. Also 
written anchoritism. 
anchor-gate (ang'kor-gat), . A kind of heavy 
gate used in the locks of canals, having for its 
upper bearing a collar embedded in the adja- 
cent masonry. 
anchor-hold (ang'kor-hold), n. 1. The hold of 
an anchor upon the ground. 2. Firm hold in 
a figurative sense; ground of expectation or 
trust; security. 
anchovy 
The one and only assurance ami fast anchor-luM of our 
souls' health. Caim/rn. 
anchor-hoy (ang'kor-hoi), . A small vessel 
or lighter fitted with capstans, etc., used for 
handling and transporting anchors and chains 
about a harbor. Also called rlmiu-lioat. 
anchor-ice (ang'kor-is), w. Ice that is formed 
on and incrusts the bottom of a lake or river 
in-shore ; ground-ice. 
anchorite, n. See anchoret. 
anchoritess,''. [< anchorite + -ess.] See "(/""- 
I X.v. 
anchoritic, anchoritical, etc. See anchoretic, 
etc. 
anchorless (ang'kor-les), a. [< anchor^- + -less.] 
Being without an anchor; hence, drifting; un- 
stable. 
My homeless, anchorless, unsupported mind. 
Charlotte Bronte, Villette, vi. 
anchor-lift (ang'kor-lif t), . A gripping device 
for lifting a pole or pile which has been driven 
into the mud to serve as an anchor for a dredge- 
boat. 
anchor-lining (ang'kor-li'ning), . Sheathing 
fastened to the sides of a vessel, or to stan- 
chions under the fore-channel, to prevent injury 
to the vessel by the bill of the anchor when it 
is fished or hauled up. See bill-board. 
anchor-oven (ang'kor-uv"n), . A coke-oven, 
so named from a wrought-iron plate called an 
anchor which is placed at the rear of the oven 
before it is charged with coal. At the end of the 
heat the anchor is emltedded in coke, and when withdrawn 
by means of a winch takes all the coke with it. 
anchor-plate (ung'kor-plat), H. 1. A heavy 
metal plate to which is secured the extremity 
of a cable of a suspension-bridge. See cut 
under anchorage. 2. In zodl., one of the cal- 
careous plates to which the anchors or ancorte 
are attached, as in members of the genus Sy- 
napta. See ancora^. 
anchor-ring (ang'kor-ring), . 1. The ring or 
shackle of an anchor to which the cable is bent. 
2. A geometrical surface generated by the 
revolution of a circle about an axis lying in its 
plane, but exterior to it. 
anchor-rocket (aug'kor-rok"et), n. A rocket 
fitted with an anchor-fiead consisting of two or 
more flukes. With a line attached to the rocket-stick 
it is used for life-saving purposes, and may be fired either 
over a Btranded vessel or beyond a bar on which the water 
is breaking. The best rocket of this class is the German 
rocket, which has an anchor-head of four palmate flukes 
placed at right angles to each other. 
anchor-shackle (an^'kor-shak*!), n. Naut., 
the bow or clevis, with two eyes and a screw- 
bolt, or bolt and key, 
which is used for se- 
curing a cable to the 
ring of the anchor. 
Also used for coupling 
lengths of chain-cable. 
E. H. Knight. 
anchor-shot (ang'kor- 
Shot), H. A projectile Anchor-shackles. 
made with arms or 
flukes and having a rope or chain attached, de- 
signed to be fired from a mortar in order to 
establish communication between the shore 
and a vessel or wreck, or between vessels. It 
is used principally in the life-saving service. 
anchor-Stock (ang'kor-stok), n. -Naut., a beam 
of wood or iron placed at the upper end of the 
shank of an anchor transversely to the plane of 
the arms. (See cuts under anchor.) its use is to 
cause the anchor when let go to lie on the bottom in such 
a position that the peak or sharp point of the arm will 
penetrate the ground and take a firm hold. Anchor- 
Stock fashion, a peculiar way of planking the outside of 
a ship with planks that are widest in the middle and taper 
toward the ends, somewhat like an anchor-stock. An- 
chor-stock planking. See planking. 
anchor-tripper (ang'kpr-trip"er), n. A device 
for tripping or casting loose a ship's anchor. 
anchor-watch (ang'kor-woch), n. Xaut., a sub- 
division of the watch kept constantly on deck 
during the time a ship lies at single anchor, to 
be in readiness to hoist jib- or staysails in order 
to keep the ship clear of her anchor, or to veer 
more cable, or to let go a second anchor in case 
she should drive or part from her first one. Also 
called harbor-watch. 
anchor-Well (ang'kor-wel), n. Xaut., a cylindri- 
cal recess in the forward end of the overhang- 
ing deck of the first monitor-built vessels, in 
which the anchors were carried to protect them 
and the chain from the enemy's shot, as well as 
to cause the vessels to ride more easily at anchor. 
anchovy (an-cho'vi), . ; pi. anchoeies (-viz). 
[Formerly also uncltocie and anchora, earlier 
