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- Annual - a. - Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.
- Annual - a. - Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the earth.
- Annual - a. - Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets.
- Annual - n. - A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.
- Annual - n. - Anything, especially a plant, that lasts but one year or season; an annual plant.
- Annual - n. - A Mass for a deceased person or for some special object, said daily for a year or on the anniversary day.
- Annualist - n. - One who writes for, or who edits, an annual.
- Annually - adv. - Yearly; year by year.
- Wake - n. - An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess.
- Lady's thumb - - An annual weed (Polygonum Persicaria), having a lanceolate leaf with a dark spot in the middle.
- Pensioner - n. - One of an honorable band of gentlemen who attend the sovereign of England on state occasions, and receive an annual pension, or allowance, of £150 and two horses.
- Groundsel - v. - An annual composite plant (Senecio vulgaris), one of the most common and widely distributed weeds on the globe.
- Yearbook - n. - A book containing annual reports of cases adjudged in the courts of England.
- Eyebright - n. - A small annual plant (Euphrasia officinalis), formerly much used as a remedy for diseases of the eye.
- Hop - n. - A climbing plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops).
- Pigweed - n. - A name of several annual weeds. See Goosefoot, and Lamb's-quarters.
- Isohyetose - a. - Of or pertaining to lines connecting places on the earth's surface which have a mean annual rainfall.
- Anniversary - n. - The annual return of the day on which any notable event took place, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
- Mignonette - n. - A plant (Reseda odorata) having greenish flowers with orange-colored stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb.
- Purslane - n. - An annual plant (Portulaca oleracea), with fleshy, succulent, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling.
- Rack-rent - n. - A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it; an excessive or unreasonably high rent.
- Annuity - n. - A sum of money, payable yearly, to continue for a given number of years, for life, or forever; an annual allowance.
- Waterwort - n. - Any plant of the natural order Elatineae, consisting of two genera (Elatine, and Bergia), mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.
- Spurry - n. - An annual herb (Spergula arvensis) with whorled filiform leaves, sometimes grown in Europe for fodder.
- Pinkroot - n. - An annual South American and West Indian plant (Spigelia Anthelmia).
- Dove's-foot - n. - A small annual species of Geranium, native in England; -- so called from the shape of the leaf.
- Fumitory - n. - The common uame of several species of the genus Fumaria, annual herbs of the Old World, with finely dissected leaves and small flowers in dense racemes or spikes. F. officinalis is a common species, and was formerly used as an antiscorbutic.
- Candytuft - n. - An annual plant of the genus Iberis, cultivated in gardens. The name was originally given to the I. umbellata, first, discovered in the island of Candia.
- Cauliflower - n. - An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable.
- Superannuate - v. i. - To last beyond the year; -- said of annual plants.
- Mahon stock - - An annual cruciferous plant with reddish purple or white flowers (Malcolmia maritima). It is called in England Virginia stock, but the plant comes from the Mediterranean.
- Revenue - n. - That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income.
- Annual - a. - Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the earth.