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An East Indian money of account, the sixteenth of a rupee, or about 2

See Annals.

A writer of annals. The monks . . . were the only annalists in those ages. Hume.

Pertaining to, or after the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style."A stiff annalistic method." Sir G. C. Lewis.

To record in annals. Sheldon.

s in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened. "Annals the revolution." Macaulay. "The annals of our religion." Rogers.

The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings.

Banishment. [Obs.] Bailey.

An oriental shrub (Lawsonia inermis) from which henna is obtained.

A half years's stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister's heirs after his decease.

A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form.

A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven feet. See Cane, 4.

A colorless oil obtained from hemp dy distillation, and possessing its intoxicating properties.

A pisonous resin extracted from hemp (Cannabis sativa, variety Indica). The narcotic effects of hasheesh are due to this resin.

Pertaining to hemp; hempen. [R.]

A genus of a single species belonging to the order Uricaceæ; hemp. Cannabis Indica (, the Indian hemp, a powerful narcotic, now considered a variety of the common hemp.

A grandam. [Colloq.]

A Hebrew exclamation of praise to the Lord, or an invocation of blessings. "Hosanna to the Highest." Milton. Hosanna to the Son of David. Matt. xxi. 9.

Cheat; deception. [Obs.] Sir T. Brown.

ed beneath the wheels of this car. It is now known that any death within the temple of Jagannath is considered to render the place unclean, and any spilling of blood in the presence of the idol is a pollution.