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versary feast. Anniversary day (R. C. Ch.). See Anniversary, n., 2. -- Anniversary week, that week in the year in which the annual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in Boston and New York. [Eastern U. S.]

A bird one year old, or that has once molted.

The act of announcing, or giving notice; that which announces; proclamation; publication.

That which annoys. A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair, Any annoyance in that precious sense. Shak.

One who, or that which, annoys.

That annoys; molesting; vexatious. -- An*noy"ing*ly, adv.

Anything, especially a plant, that lasts but one year or season; an annual plant. Oaths . . . in some sense almost annuals; . . . and I myself can remember about forty different sets. Swift.

That may be Annulled.

That may be announced or declared; declarable. [R.]

25th) by the Church of England, of Rome, etc., in memory of the angel's announcement, on that day; Lady Day.

Any medicine which allays pain, as an opiate or narcotic; anything that soothes disturbed feelings.

enabled to unite into a consistent whole the various anomalies and contending principles that are found in the minds and affairs of men. Burke. As Professor Owen has remarked, there is no greater anomaly in nature than a bird that can not fly. Darwin.

Straightway; at once. [Obs.] The same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it. Matt. xiii. 20.

The quality or state of being anonymous; anonymousness; also, that which anonymous. [R.] He rigorously insisted upon the rights of anonymity. Carlyle.

urn (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response. There was no voice, nor any that answered. 1 Kings xviii. 26.

werable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God Swift.

One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. See Ant-bear, Pangolin, Aard-vark, and Echidna.

Contest; opposition; antagonism. [Obs.] Antagony that is between Christ and Belial. Milton.

Anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system. Hoopplw.

onsists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.