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To annoy; to vex. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Piers Plowman. All that noyed his heavy spright. Spenser.

A drowning of many persons at once, -- a method of execution practiced at Nantes in France during the Reign of Terror, by Jean Baptiste Carrier.

, Annoyance. [Obs.] Spenser.

A cordial of brandy, etc., flavored with the kernel of the bitter almond, or of the peach stone, etc.

An annoyer. [Obs.] Tusser.

Full of annoyance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Noils.

Annoying; disagreeable. [Obs.] Watch the noyous night, and wait for Spenser.

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.

See Quinoyl.

A radical of which quinone is the hydride, analogous to phenyl. [Written also kinoyl.]

e into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.

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.