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The act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation.

A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.

To reduce to nothing; to obliterate. Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct. And all her various objects of delight Annulled. Milton.

A space contained between the circumferences of two circles, one within the other.

Serving to assuage pain; soothing. The anodyne draught of oblivion. Burke.

Unthinkable. [Rare]

Anything anomalous. [R.]

Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous. We are 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.…

Want of appetite, without a loathing of food. Coxe.

t person, indefinitely; any one else; some one else. Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth. Prov. xxvii. 2. While I am coming, another steppeth down before me. John v. 7.

efute. No man was able to answer him a word. Matt. xxii. 46. These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant. Milton. The reasoning was not and could not be answered. Macaulay.

Opposition of action; counteraction or contrariety of things or principles.

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

Anything that quells the venereal appetite.

Something done before another act. [Obs.]

The ascription of human characteristics to things not human.

One who attributes the human form or other human attributes to the Deity or to anything not human.

Anything to prevent the effects of friction, esp. a compound lubricant for machinery, etc., often consisting of plumbago, with some greasy material; antifriction grease.

The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order. So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery. Shak.

A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison.