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2. Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets. Bacon.

An"nu*al, n. 1. A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.

2. Anything, especially a plant, that lasts but one year or season; an annual plant.

Oaths . . . in some sense almost annuals; . . . and I myself can remember about forty different sets. Swift.

3. (R. C. Ch.) A Mass for a deceased person or for some special object, said daily for a year or on the anniversary day.

An"nu*al*ist, n. One who writes for, or who edits, an annual. [R.]

An"nu*al*ly, adv. Yearly; year by year.

An"nu*a*ry (&?;), a. [Cf. F. annuaire.] Annual. [Obs.] -- n. A yearbook.

An"nu*el*er (&?;), n. A priest employed in saying annuals, or anniversary Masses. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An"nu*ent (&?;), a. [L. annuens, p. pr. of annuere; ad + nuere to nod.] Nodding; as, annuent muscles (used in nodding).

An*nu"i*tant (&?;), n. [See Annuity.] One who receives, or its entitled to receive, an annuity. Lamb.

An*nu"i*ty (&?;), n.; pl. Annuities (&?;). [LL. annuitas, fr. L. annus year: cf. F. annuité.] A sum of money, payable yearly, to continue for a given number of years, for life, or forever; an annual allowance.

An*nul" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Annulled (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Annulling.] [F. annuler, LL. annullare, annulare, fr. L. ad to + nullus none, nullum, neut., nothing. See Null, a.] 1. To reduce to nothing; to obliterate.

Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct. And all her various objects of delight Annulled. Milton.

2. To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by component authority.

Do they mean to annul laws of inestimable value to our liberties? Burke.

Syn. -- To abolish; abrogate; repeal; cancel; reverse; rescind; revoke; nullify; destroy. See Abolish.

An"nu*lar (&?;), a. [L. annularis, fr. annulis ring: cf. F. annulaire.] 1. Pertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; forming a ring; ringed; ring-shaped; as, annular fibers.

2. Banded or marked with circles.

Annular eclipse (Astron.), an eclipse of the sun in which the moon at the middle of the eclipse conceals the central part of the sun's disk, leaving a complete ring of light around the border.

An`nu*lar"i*ty (&?;), n. Annular condition or form; as, the annularity of a nebula. J. Rogers.

An"nu*lar*ry, adv. In an annular manner.

An"nu*la*ry (&?;), a. [L. annularis. See Annular.] Having the form of a ring; annular. Ray.

||An`nu*la"ta (&?;), n. pl. [Neut. pl., fr. L. annulatus ringed.] (Zoöl.) A class of articulate animals, nearly equivalent to Annelida, including the marine annelids, earthworms, Gephyrea, Gymnotoma, leeches, etc. See Annelida.

An"nu*late (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) One of the Annulata.

{ An"nu*late, An"nu*la`ted (&?;) } a. [L. annulatus.] 1. Furnished with, or composed of, rings; ringed; surrounded by rings of color.

2. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Annulata.

An`nu*la"tion (&?;), n. A circular or ringlike formation; a ring or belt. Nicholson.