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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tax \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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 From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Annual \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: annual adj 1: occurring or payable every year; "an annual trip to Paris"; "yearly medical examinations"; "annual (or yearly) income" [syn: {yearly}] 2: (botany) completing its life cycle within a year; "a border of annual flowering plants" [syn: {one-year}] [ant: {biennial}, {perennial}] n 1: a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year 2: a reference book that is published regularly once every year [syn: {yearbook}]
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