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A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States.

The annular molding or group of moldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.

The order of Annulata which includes the leeches. See Hirudinea.

To make void; to annul. [Obs.] Spenser.

.] Breeches buoy, in the life-saving service, a pair of canvas breeches depending from an annular or beltlike life buoy which is usually of cork. This contrivance, inclosing the person to be rescued, is hung by short ropes from a block which runs upon the hawser stretched from the ship to the shore, and is drawn to lan…

To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall. The indentures were canceled. Thackeray. He was unwilling to cancel the interest created through former secret services, by being refractory on this occasion. Sir W. Scott.

See Cannula, Cannular, and Cannulated.

A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.

To render useless or void; to annul; to reject; to send away. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleing.

To render void or useless; to vacate or annul. [Obs.]

The act of annulling. A general cassation of their constitutions. Motley. Court of cassation, the highest court of appeal in France, which has power to quash (Casser) or reverse the decisions of the inferior courts.

An annulling; cancellation. [R.] Ayliffe.

er compulsion) is the condition of mind which, when there is volition forced by coercion, annuls the result of such coercion. Wharton.

Capable of being annulled or made void; as, a defeasible title. -- De*fea"si*ble*ness, n.

An undoing or annulling; destruction. [Obs.] Upon whose property and most dear life A damned defeat was made. Shak.

To annul in part; to repeal partly; to restrict; to limit the action of; -- said of a law. By several contrary customs, . . . many of the civil and canon laws are controlled and derogated. Sir M. Hale.

To refuse to confirm; to annul, as a judicial decision, by a contrary judgment of a superior tribunal.

Overthrow or annulment by the decision of a superior tribunal; as, disaffirmance of judgment.

To set aside; to annul; to dismiss. We say such an order was "discharged on appeal." Mozley & W. The order for Daly's attendance was discharged. Macaulay.

To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction.