ANNEAL
ANNE'AL, verb transitive1. To heat; to heat, as glass and iron for the purpose of rendering them less brittle, or to fix colors; vulgarly called nealing. This is done by heating...
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ANNEALED
ANNE'ALED, participle passive Heated; tempered; made malleable and less brittle by heat.
ANNEALING
ANNE'ALING, participle present tense heating; tempering by heat.
ANNEX
ANNEX', verb transitive [Latin annecto, annexum.]1. To unite at the end; as to annex a codicil to a will. To subjoin, to affix.2. To unite, as a smaller thing to a greater; as t...
ANNEXATION
ANNEXA'TION, noun The act of annexing, or uniting at the end; conjunction; addition; the act of connecting; union. In English law, the uniting of lands or rents to the crown.
ANNEXED
ANNEX'ED, participle passive Joined at the end; connected with; affixed.
ANNEXING
ANNEX'ING, participle present tense Uniting at the end; affixing.
ANNEXION
ANNEX'ION, noun The act of annexing; annexation; addition. [Little used.]
ANNEXMENT
ANNEX'MENT, noun The act of annexing; the thing annexed.
ANNIHILABLE
ANNI'HILABLE, adjective That may be annihilated.
ANNIHILATE
ANNI'HILATE, verb transitive [Latin ad and nihilum, nothing, of ne, not, and hilum, a trifle.]1. To reduce to nothing; to destroy the existence of.No human power can annihilate ...
ANNIHILATED
ANNI'HILATED, participle passive Reduced to nothing; destroyed.
ANNIHILATING
ANNI'HILATING, participle present tense Reducing to nothing; destroying the specific form of.
ANNIHILATION
ANNIHILA'TION, noun1. The act of reducing to nothing or non-existence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can...
ANNIVERSARILY
ANNIVERS'ARILY, adverb Annually.
ANNIVERSARY
ANNIVERS'ARY, adjective [Latin anniversarius, of annus, year, and verto, to turn.]Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as an anniversary feast.ANNIVERS'ARY...
ANNOMINATION
ANNOMINA'TION, noun [Latin ad and nominatio, from nomino, to name, from nomen.]1. A pun; the use of words nearly alike in sound, but of different meanings; a paronomasy.2. Allit...
ANNONA
ANNO'NA, noun [Latin annoma, from annus, a year, and signifying a year's production or increase; hence provisions.]The custard apple, a genus of several species, one of which, t...
ANNOTATE
AN'NOTATE, verb intransitive [Latin annoto.] To comment; to make remarks on a writing.
ANNOTATION
ANNOTA'TION, noun [Latin annotatio, of ad and notatio, a marking, from noto, to mark, or nota, a mark.]1. A remark, note or commentary on some passage of a book, intended to ill...
ANNOTATOR
AN'NOTATOR, noun A writer of notes; a commentator; a scholiast; one who writes notes to illustrate the composition of an author.
ANNOTTA
ANNOT'TA, noun Orlean, or roucou; a hard dry paste, consisting of the pellicles of the seeds of the bixa orellana, a shrub growing in S. America and the W. Indies. It is moderat...
ANNOUNCE
ANNOUNCE, verb transitive announs'. [Latin annuncio, to deliver a message, of ad and nuncio, to tell from nuncius, a messenger.]1. To publish; to proclaim; to give notice, or fi...
ANNOUNCED
ANNOUN'CED, participle passive Proclaimed; first published.
ANNOUNCEMENT
ANNOUNCEMENT, noun announs'ment. The act of giving notice; proclamation; publication.
ANNOUNCER
ANNOUN'CER, noun One that announces, or first gives notice; a proclaimer.
ANNOUNCING
ANNOUN'CING, participle present tense Introducing notice; first publishing; proclaiming.