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brown feeds: this is an eatable fruit, of a fvveet infipid 
iafte ; it is tlie food of guanas, and many other wild crea¬ 
tures. It is a native of North America. 
9. Annona Aiiatica, or Afiatic cuilard-apple: leaves lan¬ 
ceolate, fmooth, fhining, marked with lines. This is a 
middle-fized tree, with fpreading branches. Native of the 
Tad Indies. Cultivated there and in China. 
10. Annona Africana, or African cuftard-apple : leaves 
lanceolate pnbefcent. The branches are rugged with lit¬ 
tle dots. This, though it has the name of Africana , is faid 
to be a native of America. Thefe fruits are much efteem- 
ed by the natives of the countries where they grow natu¬ 
rally, are reckoned very cooling and wholefome, and are 
frequently given to tick perfons. 
Propagation and Culture. The feventii fort will thrive in 
the open air in England, if it is planted in a warm fitua- 
tion; but the plants fhould be trained up in pots, and 
flickered in winter for two or three years, until they have 
acquired fome ftrength; then they may be turned out of 
the pots in the fpring, and planted in full ground, where 
they are to remain. This fort produced flowers in the cu¬ 
rious garden of his grace the duke of Argyle, at Whitton, 
near Hounflow, where it grew in the open air for fome 
years, as aifo in the nurferv of the late Mr. Gray, near 
Fulham. The feeds are frequently brought to England 
from North America; they are much larger than thofe of 
the other fpecies, and many plants have beenraifed in the 
gardens near London. The fliape of the leaves is alfo 
different; this cafls its leaves in autumn, whereas all tire 
others retain their leaves, never caking them until the 
fpring, v\ hen the new' leaves come out. The fruit is very 
different from thofe of the other fpecies, two or three 
growing together at their foot-ftalks. When the feeds of 
this fort are fown, they frequently remain a whole year in 
the ground; therefore the earth in the pots fhould not be 
difturbed, where they are fown, if the plants do not come 
tip the firft year; and the pots fhould be fheltered in win¬ 
ter, and the following fpring, if they are plunged into a 
new hot-bed, the plants will come up much fooner than 
thofe which are fown in the open air, and will have more 
time to get ftrength before the winter. All the other forts, 
which are natives of the hot parts of America, or the 
Eaft Indies, are too tender to live in this country, if they 
are not preferved in warm ftoves; they come up very ea- 
iily from the feeds which are brought over, if they are 
frefh ; but thefe feeds rauft be fown on a good hot-bed, or 
in pois of light earth, and plunged into a hot-bed of tan¬ 
ner’s bark in February, which is by much the be/t time; 
becaufe, when the plants come up early, they will have 
time to get ftrength before the cold weather comes on in 
the autumn. Some of thefe plants are twelve or fourteen 
feet high in our gardens, and there were plants of the fe- 
venth fort in the garden at Chelfea, which were more than 
twenty feet high, and they produced flowers two or three 
years. 
Annona,/! in Roman antiquity, denotes provifion for 
a year of all forts, as of flefli, wine, &c. but efpecially of 
corn. Annona is likewife the allowance of oil, fait, bread, 
flelh, corn, wine, hay, and ftraw, which was annually pro¬ 
vided by the contradfors lor the maintenance of an army. 
ANNO'N^E PREFEC'TUS,/! in antiquity, an extra¬ 
ordinary magiftrate, whofe bulinefs it was to prevent a 
fcarcity of provifion, and to regulate the weight and fine- 
nefs of bread. 
ANNONA'Y, a town of France in the department of 
Ardeche and late province of Dauphiny, feated on the 
confluenceof the Gances and Deumes, twelve iniles fouth- 
weft of Vienne. Lat.45.15_N. Ion. 4. 52. E. 
AN'NOT, a fmall city in the mountains of Provence in 
France. Lat.44.4.N. Ion. 7.0. E. 
ANNOTA'TIO, f. The very beginning of a febrile 
paroxyfm, called alfo the attack of the paroxyfm. There 
is another annotalio or epifemafa, which is proper to hedtic 
fevers, happening an hour or two after eating: in this 
there is no fliivering with cold, as in the other fort. 
ANN 
ANNOTA'TION, f. \_amotatio, Lat.] Explications or 
remarks written upon books; notes.—It might appear ve¬ 
ry improper to publifh annotations, without the text itfelf 
whereunto they relate. Boyle. 
ANNOTA'TOR,/! [Lat.] A writer of notes, or anno¬ 
tations; a fcholiaft ; a commentator.—I have not that re- 
fpedt for the annotators, which they generally meet with in 
the world. Felton. 
To ANNOU'NCE, v.a. Cannoneer, Fr. annuncio, Lat.] 
Topublifn; to proclaim. To pronounce ; to declare by 
a judicial fentence : 
Of the Meffiah I have heard foretold 
By all the prophets; of thy birth at length 
Announc'd by Gabriel with the firft I knew. Milton. 
To ANNO'Y, v. a. [annoyer, Fr.] To incommode; to 
vex ; to teaze ; to moleft: 
As one who long in populous city pent, 
Where houfes thick, and fewers, annoy the air. 
Forth iffuing on a fummer’s morn to breathe 
Among the pleafant villages, and farms. 
Adjoin’d, from each thing met conceives delight. Milton. 
—Infedts feldom ufe their offenfive weapons, unlefs pro¬ 
voked : let them but alone, and annoy them not. Ray. 
Annoy,/! Injury; moleftation; trouble: 
Sleep, Richmond, fleep in peace, and wake in joy; 
Good angels guard thee from the boar’s annoy. 
Shakefpeare . 
“After annoy comes joy:” H. Ger. Auffckmertzen, 
fchertzen. After rain, fun-ftiine, Pof nubila phcebus. A 
faying people are apt to comfort themfelves with in trou¬ 
ble, upon a fuppofition, that, asfun-ihine follows rain, fo 
good fortune niuft neceffarily fucceed evil fortune. 
ANNOY'ANCE,/! That which annoys; that which 
hurts.—Crows, ravens, rooks, and magpies, are great an¬ 
noyances to corn. Mortimer. —The ftate of being annoyed; 
or adt of annoying.—The greateft annoyance and difturb- 
ance of mankind has been from one of thofe two things, 
force or fraud. South. 
ANNOY'ER,/! The perfon that annoys. 
AN'NUAL, adj. \_annuel, Fr. from annus, Lat.] That 
which comes yearly: 
Annual for me the grape, the rofe, renew 
The juice nedtareous, and the balmy dew. Pope. 
That which is reckoned by the year. That which lads 
only a year.—The dying in the winter of the roots of plants 
that are annual, feemeth to be caufed by the over-expence 
of the fap; which being prevented, they will fuperannu- 
ate, if they (land warm. Bacon.' —Every tree may, in fome 
fenfe, be faid to be an annual plant, both leaf, flower, and 
fruit, proceeding from the coat that was fuperinduced over 
the wood the laft year. Ray. 
Annual Motion of the Earth. See Astrono¬ 
my. 
Annual Leaves, are fuch leaves as come up afrelh 
in the fpring, and perifh in winter. Thefe ftand oppofed 
to Ever-greens. 
Annual Plants, called alfo Amply annuals, are fuch 
as only live their year, i. e. come up in the fpring and die 
again in the autumn; and accordingly are to be recruited 
every year. 
AN'NUALLY,aii». Yearly; every year.—The whole 
ftrength of a nation is the utmoft that a prince can raife 
annually from his fubjedls. Swift. 
AN'NUEL of NORWAY, of which mention is made 
in the adts of parliament of king James III. was an an¬ 
nual payment of an hundred marks fterling, which the 
kings of Scotland were obliged to pay to the kings of 
Norway, in fatisfadlion for fome pretenfions which the 
latter had to the Scottifh kingdom, by virtue of a convey¬ 
ance made thereof by Malcolm Kenmore, who ufurped 
the crown after his brother’s deceafe. This annuel was 
firft eftablilhed in 126 6; in confideration whereof the Nor- 
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