Noah Webster
Recluse
RECLU'SE, adjective
Shut up; sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; as a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life.
I all the live-long day consume in meditation deep, recluse from human converse.
RECLU'SE, noun
1. A person who live in retirement or seclusion from intercourse with the world; as a hermit or monk.
2. A person who confines himself to a cell in a monastery.