announcer

[Eng. announce; -er. In Fr. annonceur.] One who announces. (Cot grave.) ạn-nou'n-çing, pr. par. [ANNOUNCE.] ạn-noy, * ạ-noy'e, * a-noie, v .. [Norm. annoyer, from neure or nuire to hurt; Fr. ennuyer to weary; nuire to damage, to hurt; Ital. an no i are = to weary, to tire; nuocere to hurt. From Lat. noceo = to harm or hurt.] [NUISANCE, NOXIOUS.] 1. Lit. Of persons or other conscious beings: To tease, to molest, to put to inconvenience, to trouble, to inflict vexation upon. "None awenture, for wich the knyghtis weire Anoit all at the abiding thare. Lance lot of the Laik (ed. Skeat), bk. i. 850, 351. "His falous-chip abas it of that thing, And als therof anoyt was the king. Ibid . , bk. ii, 2,243, 2,244 he determined not yet to dismi them, but merely to humble and annoy them."- Macaulay : Hist. Eng ., ch. iv. 2. Fig . Of unconscious existence: (a) To drive or to hither and thither. "His limbs would to about him with delight, Like branches when strong winds the trees annoy ." Words worth. (6) To harm, to injure. "Salamon saith, that right as motthes in schepes flees annoyeth the clothes, and the smale wormes to the tre, right so annoyeth sorwe to the herte."- Chaucer .