a. and sb. [ad. L. annulāri-us relating to a ring, f. annul-us: see -ARY.]
† 1. = ANNULAR 1, 2. Obs.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 142. Wormes and Leeches … whose bodies consist of round and annulary fibers.
1691. Ray, Creation (1714), 270. It [the Wind-Pipe] is made with annulary Cartilages to keep it constantly open.
2. Bearing the ring. (Said of the fourth finger of the left hand.) Hence, with ‘finger’ understood.
1623. Favine, Theat. Hon., I. v. 49. This Annulary finger becommeth Glandulous and swolne.
1855. Labarte’s Arts of Mid. Ages, iv. 144. The thumb and annulary crossed.
