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Ann

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Bust to the left of Anne de Batarnay de Joyeuse in an oval. Above the portrait an image of two hands playing a harp and the spell: Hilariter. Below the portrait four lines in French.
Bust to the left of Anne de Batarnay de Joyeuse in an oval. Above the portrait an image of two hands playing a harp and the spell: Hilariter. Below the portrait four lines in French.
Illustrations
The Holy Family with St. Anne and other women, men and children in a living room. Mary sits in the middle with the Christ child on her lap. Anna adores the Child. Two other women with small children sit on either side of Maria. Joseph leans left against a pillar. Below the scene a text in Latin. This print is part of an album.
The Holy Family with St. Anne and other women, men and children in a living room. Mary sits in the middle with the Christ child on her lap. Anna adores the Child. Two other women with small children sit on either side of Maria. Joseph leans left against a pillar. Below the scene a text in Latin. This print is part of an album.
Saint Anne of Saint Bartolomew in the habit of the Carmelite nuns. An angel brings her a chalice with a host. Anna holds a burning heart in her hand.
Saint Anne of Saint Bartolomew in the habit of the Carmelite nuns. An angel brings her a chalice with a host. Anna holds a burning heart in her hand.
Mary with the Christ Child on her lap. She is surrounded by her family. Saint Anne gives an apple to the Christ child. Next to Mary is her aunt Elisabet with the child Johannes. In the background Zacharias and Joseph in discussion. The print has a Latin caption.
Mary with the Christ Child on her lap. She is surrounded by her family. Saint Anne gives an apple to the Christ child. Next to Mary is her aunt Elisabet with the child Johannes. In the background Zacharias and Joseph in discussion. The print has a Latin caption.
Tomb of Sir George Broke, Lord Cobham and his wife Anne, in Cobham Church in Kent.
Tomb of Sir George Broke, Lord Cobham and his wife Anne, in Cobham Church in Kent.
Portrait of Mary Anne Stirling as a nurse in the play Romeo and Juliet
Double portrait of Ann Kirke and Anna Dalkeith, Countess of Morton, in precious dresses. Both are depicted three-quarters, sitting side by side, in front of a curtain. On the left is Ann Kirke, her right hand on the back of her chair, with a flower in her left hand. Anna Dalkeith is seated on the right. A tree in the background to the right.
Double portrait of Ann Kirke and Anna Dalkeith, Countess of Morton, in precious dresses. Both are depicted three-quarters, sitting side by side, in front of a curtain. On the left is Ann Kirke, her right hand on the back of her chair, with a flower in her left hand. Anna Dalkeith is seated on the right. A tree in the background to the right.
Portrait of Richard Mansfield as King Richard III of England and Beatrice Cameron as Anne Neville in the play Richard III
Octagonal stool or stool made of porcelain, painted in underglaze blue. On the wall a wide, continuous band with lotus tendrils. A double openwork coin on two opposite sides. On the top and bottom of the wall a band with lobed cartouches with lotus tendrils; embossed studs in between. The top with a band with lotus tendrils, an openwork coin motif and a band with a meander pattern. The bottom is open. A crack in the wall. Blue White.
Octagonal stool or stool made of porcelain, painted in underglaze blue. On the wall a wide, continuous band with lotus tendrils. A double openwork coin on two opposite sides. On the top and bottom of the wall a band with lobed cartouches with lotus tendrils; embossed studs in between. The top with a band with lotus tendrils, an openwork coin motif and a band with a meander pattern. The bottom is open. A crack in the wall. Blue White.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
Anne Boleyn had three breasts.
  1. Ann
    (Scots Law) A half years's stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister's heirs after his decease.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I's mother, had six fingers on one hand.
  1. (n) Ann
    Same as annat.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary LL. annata, income of a year, also, of half a year, fr. L. annus, year: cf. F. annate, annats

Usage in the news

The photographer Greg Kessler captures a transformation of the model Anne V for a M.A.C. elliscountypress.com

Many archeologists believe that the 300-year-old wreckage off the North Carolina coast is the remains of Queen Anne's Revenge, Blackbeard 's flagship for much of his short but storied career as a pirate. slate.com

Artifacts pulled from the wreck of Blackbeard 's flagship Queen Anne's Revenge offer a glimpse into the bloody decades of the early 18th century, when pirates ruled the Carolina coast. americanheritage.com

Kimberly Ann Strabley became the bride of Aaron Timothy Blatch on July 16 at Calvary United Presbyterian Church. morningjournalnews.com

And Wilbert and Carolyn Blatch , Lisbon, are announcing the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their children, Kimberly Ann Strabley and Aaron Timothy Blatch . morningjournalnews.com

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will drag poor Anne Hathaway out of bed tomorrow at 5:30 am to announce the Oscar nominees in 10 major categories. nbcsandiego.com

Ann Blee has been named program director for Healing Pathways-Cancer Resource Center. rockrivertimes.com

A statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary has been stolen from the grounds of St Ann's Catholic Church in Raynham. tauntongazette.com

"What I hate about what LifeWay has done is that it just makes Christians look stupid," Leigh Anne Tuohy tells The Hollywood Reporter. hollywoodreporter.com

When the story carries the ball By Ann Hornaday Friday, Nov 20, 2009. ashingtonpost.com

Anne Stokes/Press TribuneJeannie Noll, owner and designer of Blind Spot , at a Granite Bay client's home. thepresstribune.com

Abanes, Emily Anne Murphy, Jerry Halstead, Kodie Oddolato (Badolato), Courtney Kramer. ashingtonpost.com

Starring Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson. acotrib.com

Ann Roth is both an arts veteran and a beginner. newsobserver.com

The cause was ovarian cancer, said Anne Close, her editor at Alfred A Knopf. nytimes.com

Usage in scientific papers

Guillemin, The Spectral Theory of Toeplitz Operators, Ann.
Universality and scaling of zeros on symplectic manifolds

Sommers, Universality in the random matrix spectra in the regime of weak non-Hermiticity, Ann.
Determinantal random point fields

Traverso, Seminormality and Picard group, Ann.
Factorization of generalized theta functions at reducible case

Wettig, hep-ph/0003017, to be published in Ann.
Spectral Universality of Real Chiral Random Matrix Ensembles

Ikeda, “Two-dimensional gravity and nonlinear gauge theory,” Ann.
A note on topological brane theories

Usage in literature

Mrs. Everard and her daughter Mona assisted Anne in receiving the guests. "The Art of Disappearing" by John Talbot Smith

Ann, daughter of Thomas Evershed, bap. "Highways and Byways in Surrey" by Eric Parker

He needn't even know where we put Cousin Ann. "The Comings of Cousin Ann" by Emma Speed Sampson

Milly Ann loves us all, Milly Ann does. "Rose O'Paradise" by Grace Miller White

Fresno, Chinese M. O., 1.25; Ann'y Off's, 21.17. "The American Missionary -- Volume 54, No. 3, July, 1900" by Various

Mrs. John Eliot, Anne Hutchinson, Mrs. Fuller and Sarah Alcock were the first in the State. "History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III)" by Various

Their names were Isabella and Anne. "Richard III" by Jacob Abbott

And Cousin Sophy had given her a set of Venetian beads and Cousin Anne a bracelet. "Phoebe, Junior" by Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant

Fresno, Chinese M. O., 2; Ann'y Pledges, 9. "The American Missionary -- Volume 54, No. 4, October, 1900" by Various

Here, tethered to a stake on the bank, lay the high-sided old bateau, which Mandy Ann had long coveted as a perfectly ideal play-house. "The Backwoodsmen" by Charles G. D. Roberts

Usage in poetry
Friend, praise the new;
The old is fled:
Vivat FROU-FROU!
QUEEN ANNE is dead!
"Ballade Of Queen Anne" by Andrew Lang Author object (36)
Now Ann Eliza was the name
Of her at East Skiddaw;
She was the most cantankerous
Female you ever saw.
"The Tearful Tale Of Captain Dan" by Ellis Parker Butler
Let mirth and joy a season reign
And sorrow flee away
Sadness were perfect sin it is
My Anne's natal day
"To Anne On Her Birthday" by Nora Pembroke
White lilac bowed,
Lost lanes of Queen Anne's lace,
And that high-builded cloud
Moving at summer's pace.
"Cut Grass" by Philip Larkin Author object (3160)
Well, when into his ferry-slip
His ferry-craft he ran,
Upon the shore he seen his wife:
To wit, Eliza Ann.
"The Tearful Tale Of Captain Dan" by Ellis Parker Butler
And never oncet in all them years
Had Ann Eliza guessed
That Dan he had another wife
So nigh as Skiddaw West.
"The Tearful Tale Of Captain Dan" by Ellis Parker Butler