Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Annoyance

Annoyance ({not transcribed}) , noun

[Old French anoiance, anuiance.]

1.
The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy.
A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers. — Fuller
For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies. — Wilkins
2.
That which annoys.
A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair, Any annoyance in that precious sense. — Shakespeare