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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.

To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.

Any bar, obstruction, or means of defense. Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere. Derham.

To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester. He bores me with some trick. Shak. Used to come and bore me at rare intervals. Carlyle.

To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation. [Colloq.]

itary instrument of the same name. The species grow in warm countries, and are often very annoying to cattle.

To be vexed or annoyed. Fielding.

A mock serenade of discordant noises, made with kettles, tin horns, etc., designed to annoy and insult.

To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

Displeasure; discontent; annoyance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

That which displeases; cause of irritation or annoyance; offense; injury. Hast thou delight to see a wretched man Do outrage and displeasure to himself Shak.

An annoyance to the ear. [R.] The perpetual jangling of the chimes . . . is no small earsore Sir T. Browne.

Freedom from care, solicitude, or anything that annoys or disquiets; tranquillity; peace; comfort; security; as, ease of mind. Among these nations shalt thou find no ease. Deut. xxviii. 65. Take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. Luke xii. 19.

One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis. They serve to annoy the enemy's miners.