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Hermit thrush   /hˈərmət θrəʃ/   Listen
noun
Hermit  n.  
1.
A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives. "He had been Duke of Savoy, and after a very glorious reign, took on him the habit of a hermit, and retired into this solitary spot."
2.
A beadsman; one bound to pray for another. (Obs.) "We rest your hermits."
3.
(Cookery) A spiced molasses cookie, often containing chopped raisins and nuts.
Hermit crab (Zool.), a marine decapod crustacean of the family Paguridae. The species are numerous, and belong to many genera. Called also soldier crab. The hermit crabs usually occupy the dead shells of various univalve mollusks.
Hermit thrush (Zool.), an American thrush (Turdus Pallasii), with retiring habits, but having a sweet song.
Hermit warbler (Zool.), a California wood warbler (Dendroica occidentalis), having the head yellow, the throat black, and the back gray, with black streaks.






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"Hermit thrush" Quotes from Famous Books



... with a bird note that pulses along; A melody sobs in the heart of its dawning— The pain that foreshadows the birth of a song. Art thou a flecking, brave Bluebird, of sky light, Or the sough of a minor wove into a beam? Oh, Hermit Thrush, Hermit Thrush, thou of the eye bright, Bird, or the spirit of ...
— How the Flag Became Old Glory • Emma Look Scott

... kingfishers, jays, bluebird, kingbird, chickadee, snow bunting; several sparrows, including, fortunately, the white-crowned, white-throat and song, but now, unfortunately, the English as well. There are blackbirds, red-polls, a dozen warblers, the American robin, hermit thrush and ruby-throated humming-bird. ...
— Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador • William Wood

... bobolink, singing up into the sky like the skylark, and with which we connected the ripening of the strawberry, the merriest and most rollicking of all bird songs, as that of the bluebird was the tenderest. Then came the hermit thrush, heard only in the depth of the forest, shy and remote in his life and nesting, and the whip-poor-will, in the evening. Each was a new leaf turned over in my book of life, the reading of which was my only happiness. What else, or more, could be expected of an existence hedged ...
— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I • Stillman, William James



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