annoy, annoye

[From the substantive.] Annoyance. (Obsolete, except in poetry.) "Councel or help; and therfor telleth me Al your annoy, for it schal be secre." Chaucer: C. 7., 14,540, 14,541. "And, in the shape of that young boy, He wrought the castle much annoy. Scott: The Lay of the Last Minstrel , iii. 21. ạn-noy-ance, s. [Eng. annoy; -ance.] 1. The act of annoying, molesting, or teasing. "For the further annoyance and terrour of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies."Wilkins. 2. The state of being annoyed, molested, or teased. ". a government which has generally caused more annoyance t annoyance to its allies than to its enemies."Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xx. 3. That which annoys, molests, or teases. "Prud. Can you remember by what means you find your annoyances, at times, as if they were vanquished?"-Bunyan: P. P., pt. 1.