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A year old; in Yearly growths.

ca. It is used for coloring cheese, butter, etc. [Written also Anatto, Anatta, Annatto, Annotta, etc.]

To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim. Her [Q. Elizabeth's] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts. Gilpin.

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

One who announces.

To molest, incommode, or harm; as, to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade.

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.

One who, or that which, annoys.

Annoying. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

Troublesome; annoying. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A small wild ox of Celebes (Anoa depressicornis), allied to the buffalo, but having long nearly straight horns.

The positive pole of an electric battery, or more strictly the electrode by which the current enters the electrolyte on its way to the other pole; -- opposed to cathode.

A genus of fresh-water bivalves, having to teeth at the hinge. [Written also Anodonta.]

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

Anodyne.

(Psychol.) Not subject to conscious attention; having an indefinite, relatively passive, conscious being; characteristic of the "fringe" or "margin" of consciousness.

The anoint with oil. [Obs.] Holinshed.

unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil. And fragrant oils the stiffened limbs anoint. Dryden. He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. John ix. 6.

One who anoints.