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The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy. A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers. Fuller. For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies. Wilkins.

Annoying. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Troublesome; annoying. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A priest employed in saying annuals, or anniversary Masses. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A heavy green oil (partially solidifying on cooling), which distills over from coal tar at a temperature above 270º. It is the principal source of anthracene.

Opposing or destroying contagion.

Efficacious in preventing or allaying fever. -- n.

Prevention of sepsis by excluding or destroying microorganisms.

Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying; -- applied to things; as, anxious labor. The sweet of life, from which God hath bid dwell far off all anxious cares. Milton.

Destroying the appetite, or suspending hunger.

A short, pithy, and instructive saying; a terse remark, conveying some important truth; a sententious precept or maxim.

To utter apothegms, or short and sententious sayings.

Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house. Modesty is the appendage of sobriety. Jer. Taylor.

The act of applying; application; [Obs.] subservience. Shak.

The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.

Having the property of applying; applicative; practical. -- n.

To busy; to keep at work; to ply. [Obs.] She was skillful in applying his "humors." Sir P. Sidney.

Praying or wishing good. [Obs.]"Apprecatory benedictions." Bp. Hall.

he act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception. Simple apprehension denotes no more than the soul's naked intellection of an object. Glanvill.