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n.; pl. Annuities [ LL. annuitas, fr. L. annus year: cf. F. annuité. ] A sum of money, payable yearly, to continue for a given number of years, for life, or forever; an annual allowance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Continuities /plu>. [ L. continuitas: cf. F. continuité. See Continuous. ] the state of being continuous; uninterrupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a continuity of glittering objects. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Law of continuity (Math. & Physics), the principle that nothing passes from one state to another without passing through all the intermediate states. --
Solution of continuity. (Math.) See under Solution. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts. “Discontinuity of surface.” Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Disingenuousness. [ Obs. ] Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. L. in odio in hatred. See Annoy. ] A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium. T. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. genuinus, fr. genere, gignere, to beget, in pass., to be born: cf. F. génuine. See Gender. ] Belonging to, or proceeding from, the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials. “True, genuine night.” Dryden.

Syn. -- Authentic; real; true; pure; unalloyed; unadulterated. See Authentic.

-- Gen"u*ine*ly, adv. -- Gen"u*ine*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

The evidence, both internal and external, against the genuineness of these letters, is overwhelming. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ingenuitas ingenuousness: cf. F. ingénuité. See Ingenuous. ] 1. The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the means which human ingenuity has contrived. Blair. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Curiousness, or cleverness in design or contrivance; as, the ingenuity of a plan, or of mechanism. [ 1913 Webster ]

He gives . . .
To artist ingenuity and skill. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Openness of heart; ingenuousness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The stings and remorses of natural ingenuity, a principle that men scarcely ever shake off, as long as they carry anything of human nature about them. South.

Syn. -- Inventiveness; ingeniousness; skill; cunning; cleverness; genius. -- Ingenuity, Cleverness. Ingenuity is a form of genius, and cleverness of talent. The former implies invention, the letter a peculiar dexterity and readiness of execution. Sir James Mackintosh remarks that the English overdo in the use of the word clever and cleverness, applying them loosely to almost every form of intellectual ability. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Native name. ] (Ethnol.) An Eskimo. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Geol.) same as 2nd Moho. [ PJC ]

n. [ OE. noisance, OF. noisance, nuisance, fr. L. nocentia guilt, fr. nocere to hurt, harm; akin to necare to kill. Cf Necromancy, Nocent, Noxious, Pernicious. ] That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Nuisances are public when they annoy citizens in general; private, when they affect individuals only. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One who makes or causes a nuisance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. strenuatis. ] Strenuousness; activity. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. tenuis thin + folium a leaf. ] (Bot.) Having thin or narrow leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Tenuous. ] Rare or subtile; tenuous; -- opposed to dense. [ Obs. ] Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Tenuirosters [ NL., fr. L. tenuis thin + rostrum a beak. ] (Zool.) One of the Tenuirostres. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Thin-billed; -- applied to birds with a slender bill, as the humming birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) An artificial group of passerine birds having slender bills, as the humming birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Tenues [ NL., fr. L. tenuis fine, thin. See Tenuous. ] (Gr. Gram.) One of the three surd mutes κ, π, τ; -- so called in relation to their respective middle letters, or medials, γ, β, δ, and their aspirates, χ, φ, θ. The term is also applied to the corresponding letters and articulate elements in other languages. [ 1913 Webster ]