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annualTax Tax, n. [F. taxe, fr. taxer to tax, L. taxare to touch,
sharply, to feel, handle, to censure, value, estimate, fr.
tangere, tactum, to touch. See Tangent, and cf. Task,
Taste.]
1. A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed
by authority. Specifically:
(a) A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for
the support of a government.
A farmer of taxes is, of all creditors,
proverbially the most rapacious. --Macaulay.
(b) Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon
polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a
window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.
Note: Taxes are annual or perpetual, direct or
indirect, etc.
(c) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society
to defray its expenses.
2. A task exacted from one who is under control; a
contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed
upon a subject.
3. A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy
tax on time or health.
4. Charge; censure. [Obs.] --Clarendon.
5. A lesson to be learned; a task. [Obs.] --Johnson.
Tax cart, a spring cart subject to a low tax. [Eng.]
Syn: Impost; tribute; contribution; duty; toll; rate;
assessment; exaction; custom; demand. Annual
Annual 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.
AnnualAnnual An"nu*al (?; 135), a. [OE. annuel, F. annuel, fr. L.
annualis, fr. annus year. Cf. Annals.]
1. Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming
or happening once in the year; yearly.
The annual overflowing of the river [Nile]. --Ray.
2. Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year;
as, the annual motion of the earth.
A thousand pound a year, annual support. --Shak.
2. Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season;
requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant;
annual tickets. --Bacon. Annualist
Annualist An"nu*al*ist, n.
One who writes for, or who edits, an annual. [R.]
Annually
Annually An"nu*al*ly, adv.
Yearly; year by year.
annualsAnnueler An"nu*el*er, n.
A priest employed in saying annuals, or anniversary Masses.
[Obs.] --Chaucer. Annuary
Annuary An"nu*a*ry, a. [Cf. F. annuaire.]
Annual. [Obs.] -- n. A yearbook.
Biannual
Biannual Bi*an"nu*al, a. [Pref. bi- + annual.]
Occurring twice a year; half-yearly; semiannual.
Poa annua Goose grass. (Bot.)
(a) A plant of the genus Galium (G. Aparine), a
favorite food of geese; -- called also catchweed and
cleavers.
(b) A species of knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare).
(c) The annual spear grass (Poa annua).
Goose neck, anything, as a rod of iron or a pipe, curved
like the neck of a goose; specially (Naut.), an iron hook
connecting a spar with a mast.
Goose quill, a large feather or quill of a goose; also, a
pen made from it.
Goose skin. See Goose flesh, above.
Goose tongue (Bot.), a composite plant (Achillea
ptarmica), growing wild in the British islands.
Sea goose. (Zo["o]l.) See Phalarope.
Solan goose. (Zo["o]l.) See Gannet. Semiannually
Semiannually Sem`i*an"nu*al*ly, adv.
Every half year.
Semiiannual
Semiiannual Semi`i*an"nu*al, a.
Half-yearly.
SuperannuateSuperannuate Su`per*an"nu*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Superannuated; p. pr. & vb. n. Superannuating.] [Pref.
super- + L. annus a year.]
1. To impair or disquality on account of age or infirmity.
--Sir T. Browne.
2. To give a pension to, on account of old age or other
infirmity; to cause to retire from service on a pension. Superannuate
Superannuate Su`per*an"nu*ate, v. i.
To last beyond the year; -- said of annual plants. [Obs.]
--Bacon.
SuperannuatedSuperannuate Su`per*an"nu*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Superannuated; p. pr. & vb. n. Superannuating.] [Pref.
super- + L. annus a year.]
1. To impair or disquality on account of age or infirmity.
--Sir T. Browne.
2. To give a pension to, on account of old age or other
infirmity; to cause to retire from service on a pension. SuperannuatingSuperannuate Su`per*an"nu*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Superannuated; p. pr. & vb. n. Superannuating.] [Pref.
super- + L. annus a year.]
1. To impair or disquality on account of age or infirmity.
--Sir T. Browne.
2. To give a pension to, on account of old age or other
infirmity; to cause to retire from service on a pension. Superannuation
Superannuation Su`per*an`nu*a"tion, n.
The state of being superannuated, or too old for office or
business; the state of being disqualified by old age;
decrepitude.
The world itself is in a state of superannuation.
--Cowper.
Slyness blinking through the watery eye of
superannuation. --Coleridge.
Meaning of Annua from wikipedia
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Artemisia annua, also
known as
sweet wormwood,
sweet annie,
sweet sagewort,
annual mugwort or
annual wormwood, is a
common type of
wormwood native to...
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Lunaria annua,
commonly called honesty or
annual honesty, is a
species of
flowering plant in the
cabbage and
mustard family Br****icaceae. It is native...
- Poa
annua, or
annual meadow gr**** (known in
America more
commonly as
annual bluegr**** or
simply poa), is a
widespread low-growing turfgr**** in temperate...
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Adonis annua (syn.
Adonis autumnalis L.,
Adonis phoenicea Bercht. & J.Presl.), also
known as pheasant's-eye, Adonis' flower,
autumn Adonis,
autumn pheasant's-eye...
- Iva
annua, the
annual marsh elder or sumpweed, is a
North American herbaceous annual plant in the
family Asteraceae that was
historically cultivated by...
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Mercurialis annua,
annual mercury, is a
species of
flowering plant in the
spurge family Euphorbiaceae. It is
native to the
Middle East and the Mediterranean...
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Heliopsis annua is a
species of
flowering plant in the
family Asteraceae. It is
widespread across much of
northern and
central Mexico from
Chihuahua and...
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Psathyrotes annua is a
species of
flowering plant in the
aster family known by the
common names annual psathyrotes, turtleback, or
mealy rosettes. It...
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Cousinia annua is a
species of
flowering plant in the
family Asteraceae. It is
native to
Central Asia; Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Flann...
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Stachys annua,
called the
annual yellow woundwort, is a
widespread species of
flowering plant in the
hedgenettle genus Stachys,
native to Europe, the...
