2. Alliteration. [ Obs. ] Tyrwhitt. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her [ Q. Elizabeth's ] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts. Gilpin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Publish laws, announce
Or life or death. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To proclaim; publish; make known; herald; declare; promulgate. -- To Publish, Announce, Proclaim, Promulgate. We publish what we give openly to the world, either by oral communication or by means of the press; as, to publish abroad the faults of our neighbors. We announce what we declare by anticipation, or make known for the first time; as, to announce the speedy publication of a book; to announce the approach or arrival of a distinguished personage. We proclaim anything to which we give the widest publicity; as, to proclaim the news of victory. We promulgate when we proclaim more widely what has before been known by some; as, to promulgate the gospel. [ 1913 Webster ]

Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy
Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy? Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To molest, incommode, or harm; as, to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To molest; vex; trouble; pester; embarrass; perplex; tease. [ 1913 Webster ]

Worse than Tantalus' is her annoy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which annoys. [ 1913 Webster ]

A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair,
Any annoyance in that precious sense. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 1 troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances.
Syn. -- harassed, harried, pestered [ WordNet 1.5 ]

Bannock fluke, the turbot. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Cannons are made of various materials, as iron, brass, bronze, and steel, and of various sizes and shapes with respect to the special service for which they are intended, as intended, as siege, seacoast, naval, field, or mountain, guns. They always aproach more or less nearly to a cylindrical from, being usually thicker toward the breech than at the muzzle. Formerly they were cast hollow, afterwards they were cast, solid, and bored out. The cannon now most in use for the armament of war vessels and for seacoast defense consists of a forged steel tube reinforced with massive steel rings shrunk upon it. Howitzers and mortars are sometimes called cannon. See Gun. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mech.) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Printing.) A kind of type. See Canon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cannon ball, strictly, a round solid missile of stone or iron made to be fired from a cannon, but now often applied to a missile of any shape, whether solid or hollow, made for cannon. Elongated and cylindrical missiles are sometimes called bolts; hollow ones charged with explosives are properly called shells. --
Cannon bullet, a cannon ball. [ Obs. ] --
Cannon cracker, a fire cracker of large size. --
Cannon lock, a device for firing a cannon by a percussion primer. --
Cannon metal. See Gun Metal. --
Cannon pinion, the pinion on the minute hand arbor of a watch or clock, which drives the hand but permits it to be moved in setting. --
Cannon proof, impenetrable by cannon balls. --
Cannon shot. (a) A cannon ball. (b) The range of a cannon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To collide or strike violently, esp. so as to glance off or rebound; to strike and rebound.

He heard the right-hand goal post crack as a pony cannoned into it -- crack, splinter, and fall like a mast. Kipling. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle of batteries on the devoted towm. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.; A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blue Walden rolls its cannonade. Ewerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ringing of bells and roaring of cannonry proclaimed his course through the country. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]