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One who receives, or its entitled to receive, an annuity. Lamb.

One of the Annulata.

A little ring. Tennyson.

One who annuls. [R.]

A division of the Invertebrata, nearly equivalent to the Articulata. It includes the Arthoropoda and Anarthropoda. By some zoölogists it is applied to the former only.

One of the Annulosa.

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

To add on; to count in. [Obs.] Wollaston.

The act of announcing; announcement; proclamation; as, the annunciation of peace.

One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.

ctric battery, or more strictly the electrode by which the current enters the electrolyte on its way to the other pole; -- opposed to cathode.

One who anoints.

One of a group of perching birds, having the middle toe more or less united to the outer and inner ones.

One of the Anomura.

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

One who is anonymous; also sometimes used for "pseudonym."

A genus of mosquitoes which are secondary hosts of the malaria parasites, and whose bite is the usual, if not the only, means of infecting human beings with malaria. Several species are found in the United States. They may be distinguished from the ordinary mosquitoes of the genus Culex by the long slender palpi, nearl…

One of the two orders of Nemerteans. See Nemertina.

An optical toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painted.

One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak.