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v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Abhorred p. pr. & vb. n. Abhorring. ] [ L. abhorrere; ab + horrere to bristle, shiver, shudder: cf. F. abhorrer. See Horrid. ] 1. To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Rom. xii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fill with horror or disgust. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It doth abhor me now I speak the word. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Canon Law) To protest against; to reject solemnly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul
Refuse you for my judge. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To hate; detest; loathe; abominate. See Hate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; -- with from. [ Obs. ] “To abhor from those vices.” Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which is utterly abhorring from the end of all law. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Abhorrence. [ Obs. ] Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. abhorens, -rentis, p. pr. of abhorrere. ] 1. Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts. [ 1913 Webster ]

The persons most abhorrent from blood and treason. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

The arts of pleasure in despotic courts
I spurn abhorrent. Clover. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Contrary or repugnant; discordant; inconsistent; -- followed by to. “Injudicious profanation, so abhorrent to our stricter principles.” Gibbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Detestable. “Pride, abhorrent as it is.” I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With abhorrence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who abhors. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Detestable. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Detestation. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Object of abhorrence. Isa. lxvi. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; spine + fe`rein to bear. ] Spine-bearing. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, ray + fe`rein to bear. ] Having straight projecting spines. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Adeno- + Gr. foro`s bearing. ] (Bot.) Producing glands. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. adhortari. See Adhortation. ] To exhort; to advise. [ Obs. ] Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adhortatio, fr. adhortari to advise; ad + hortari to exhort. ] Advice; exhortation. [ Obs. ] Peacham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory. [ Obs. ] Potter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Religious indifference. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Adiaphorous. ] (Eccl. Hist.) One of the German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical. Murdock. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to matters indifferent in faith and practice. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Adiaphorist. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'adia`foros; 'a priv. + dia`foros different; dia` through + fe`rein to bear. ] 1. Indifferent or neutral. Jer. Taylor. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Incapable of doing either harm or good as a medicine. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

n. [ Gr. 'adiafori`a. ] Indifference. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. On horseback. [ 1913 Webster ]

Two suspicious fellows ahorseback. Smollet. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Along the shore or coast. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Longshoreman. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. [ G. Alpenhorn. ] A curved wooden horn about three feet long, with a cupped mouthpiece and a bell, used by the Swiss to sound the ranz des vaches and other melodies. Its notes are open harmonics of the tube. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Alt + horn. ] (Mus.) An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn. Grove. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L., from board and bed. ] (Law) A kind of divorce which does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Amophoræ [ L., fr. Gr. 'amforey`s, 'amforey`s, a jar with two handles; 'amfi` + forey`s bearer, fe`rein to bear. Cf. Ampul. ] Among the ancients, a two-handled vessel, tapering at the bottom, used for holding wine, oil, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. amphoralis. ] Pertaining to, or resembling, an amphora. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Resembling a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty bottle; especially, a respiratory sound heard over cavities in the lungs during percussion and auscultation; as, amphoric respiration or resonance. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

n. a. See Anchoret, Anchoretic. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'ana` + chw^ros place. ] An error in regard to the place of an event or a thing; a referring something to a wrong place. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. 'anafora`, fr. 'anafe`rein to carry up or back; 'ana` + fe`rein to carry. ] (Rhet.) 1. A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The use of a substitute word, such as a pronoun, in reference to a something already mentioned in a discourse; also, the relation between the substitute word and its antecedent. It is contrasted with cataphora, the use of a pronoun for a word or topic not yet mentioned. Thus, in the sentence “John was tall but he was not very heavy.” the “he” is an anaphora for John, or an anaphoric reference to John. [ PJC ]

adj. Of or pertaining to anaphora; as, anaphoric reference. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. anker, AS. ancor, oncer, L. ancora, sometimes spelt anchora, fr. Gr. 'a`gkyra, akin to E. angle: cf. F. ancre. See Angle, n. ] 1. A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The common anchor consists of a straight bar called a shank, having at one end a transverse bar called a stock, above which is a ring for the cable, and at the other end the crown, from which branch out two or more arms with flukes, forming with the shank a suitable angle to enter the ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

Formerly the largest and strongest anchor was the sheet anchor (hence, Fig., best hope or last refuge), called also waist anchor. Now the bower and the sheet anchor are usually alike. Then came the best bower and the small bower (so called from being carried on the bows). The stream anchor is one fourth the weight of the bower anchor. Kedges or kedge anchors are light anchors used in warping. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fig.: That which gives stability or security; that on which we place dependence for safety. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul. Heb. vi. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Her.) An emblem of hope. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Arch.) (a) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together. (b) Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; -- a part of the ornaments of certain moldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Zool.) One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain Holothurians, as in species of Synapta. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Television) an achorman, anchorwoman, or anchorperson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Anchor ice. See under Ice. --
Anchor light See the vocabulary. --
Anchor ring. (Math.) Same as Annulus, 2 (b). --
Anchor shot See the vocabulary. --
Anchor space See the vocabulary. --
Anchor stock (Naut.), the crossbar at the top of the shank at right angles to the arms. --
Anchor watch See the vocabulary. --
The anchor comes home, when it drags over the bottom as the ship drifts. --
Foul anchor, the anchor when it hooks, or is entangled with, another anchor, or with a cable or wreck, or when the slack cable is entangled. --
The anchor is acockbill, when it is suspended perpendicularly from the cathead, ready to be let go. --
The anchor is apeak, when the cable is drawn in so tight as to bring the ship directly over it. --
The anchor is atrip, or
aweigh, when it is lifted out of the ground. --
The anchor is awash, when it is hove up to the surface of the water. --
At anchor, anchored. --
To back an anchor, to increase the holding power by laying down a small anchor ahead of that by which the ship rides, with the cable fastened to the crown of the latter to prevent its coming home. --
To cast anchor, to drop or let go an anchor to keep a ship at rest. --
To cat the anchor, to hoist the anchor to the cathead and pass the ring-stopper. --
To fish the anchor, to hoist the flukes to their resting place (called the bill-boards), and pass the shank painter. --
To weigh anchor, to heave or raise the anchor so as to sail away. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Anchored p. pr. & vb. n. Anchoring. ] [ Cf. F. ancrer. ] 1. To place at anchor; to secure by an anchor; as, to anchor a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

Till that my nails were anchored in thine eyes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To stop; to fix or rest. [ 1913 Webster ]

My invention . . . anchors on Isabel. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. anker, ancre, AS. ancra, fr. L. anachoreta. See Anchoret. ] An anchoret. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Fit for anchorage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The set of anchors belonging to a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as, the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A toll for anchoring; anchorage duties. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Abode of an anchoret. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Anchor-shaped. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross. [ Sometimes spelt ancred. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Horol.) (a) The common recoil escapement. (b) A variety of the lever escapement with a wide impulse pin. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A female anchoret. [ 1913 Webster ]

And there, a saintly anchoress, she dwelt. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. Gr. &unr_;. ] Pertaining to an anchoret or hermit; after the manner of an anchoret. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Hermitlike. [ 1913 Webster ]