English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
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Anneloid
(n.)
An animal resembling an annelid.
Annex
(v. t.)
To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to
append; -- followed by to.
Annex
(v. t.)
To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater.
Annex
(v. t.)
To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.;
as, to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt.
Annex
(v. i.)
To join; to be united.
Annex
(n.)
Something annexed or appended; as, an additional stipulation
to a writing, a subsidiary building to a main building; a wing.
Annexation
(v. t.)
The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding,
or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas
to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold.
Annexation
(v. t.)
The union of property with a freehold so as to
become a fixture. Bouvier. (b) (Scots Law) The appropriation of lands
or rents to the crown.
Annexationist
(n.)
One who favors annexation.
Annexed
(imp. & p. p.)
of Annex
Annexer
(n.)
One who annexes.
Annexing
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Annex
Annexion
(n.)
Annexation.
Annexionist
(n.)
An annexationist.
Annexment
(n.)
The act of annexing, or the thing annexed; appendage.
Annicut
(n.)
A dam or mole made in the course of a stream for the
purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation.
Annihilable
(a.)
Capable of being annihilated.
Annihilate
(v. t.)
To destroy or eradicate, as a property or attribute
of a thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc., of; as,
to annihilate an argument, law, rights, goodness.
Annihilate
(v. t.)
To destroy the form or peculiar distinctive
properties of, so that the specific thing no longer exists; as, to
annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees.
Annihilate
(v. t.)
To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the
existence of; to cause to cease to be.