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schievous intention of the mind; a depraved inclination to mischief; an intention to vex, annoy, or injure another person, or to do a wrongful act without just cause or cause or excuse; a wanton disregard of the rights or safety of others; willfulness. Malice aforethought or prepense, malice previously and deliberately…

that the common enemy was subdued. Swift. To be in mischief, to be doing harm or causing annoyance. -- To make mischief, to do mischief, especially by exciting quarrels. -- To play the mischief, to cause great harm; to throw into confusion. [Colloq.]

To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.

The act of molesting, or the state of being molested; disturbance; annoyance.

Whatever materials are used in war for drfense or for annoying an enemy; ammunition; also, stores and provisions; military stores of all kinds. The bodies of men, munition, and money, may justly be called the sinews of war. Sir W. Raleigh.

To tease in a petty way; to scold habitually; to annoy; to fret pertinaciously. [Colloq.] "She never nagged." J. Ingelow.

Fault-finding; teasing; persistently annoying; as, a nagging toothache. [Colloq.]

xcited; subject to, or suffering from, undue excitement of the nerves; easily agitated or annoyed. Poor, weak, nervous creatures. Cheyne.

Annoyance. [Obs.] Tusser.

To annoy. See Noy. [Obs.]

An annoyer. [Obs.] Tusser.

Annoying; troublesome. [Obs.]

To annoy; to vex. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Piers Plowman. All that noyed his heavy spright. Spenser.

, Annoyance. [Obs.] Spenser.

An annoyer. [Obs.] Tusser.

Full of annoyance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Annoying; disagreeable. [Obs.] Watch the noyous night, and wait for Spenser.

That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious.

To be offensive to; to harm; to pain; to annoy; as, strong light offends the eye; to offend the conscience.

Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words.