Meaning of ANNULET
| Pronunciation: | | 'anyulit
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- [n] a small ring
- [n] molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column
- [n] a charge in the shape of a circle; a hollow roundel
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| | Synonyms: | | bandelet, bandelette, bandlet, roundel, square and rabbet |
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| | See Also: | | armorial bearing, band, bearing, charge, heraldic bearing, molding, moulding, ring | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \An"nu*let\, n. [Dim. of annulus.]
1. A little ring. --Tennyson.
2. (Arch.) A small, flat fillet, encircling a column, etc.,
used by itself, or with other moldings. It is used,
several times repeated, under the Doric capital.
3. (Her.) A little circle borne as a charge.
4. (Zo["o]l.) A narrow circle of some distinct color on a
surface or round an organ.
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| | Related Terms: | | achievement, alerion, animal charge, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, billet, blazon, blazonry, bordure, broad arrow, cadency mark, canton, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, circlet, coat of arms, cockatrice, coronet, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, device, difference, differencing, eagle, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, eye, eyelet, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, flanch, fleur-de-lis, fret, fur, fusil, garland, griffin, grommet, gules, gyron, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, honor point, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, label, lion, lozenge, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, metal, motto, mullet, nombril point, octofoil, or, ordinary, orle, pale, paly, pean, pheon, purpure, quarter, quartering, ringlet, rose, roundlet, sable, saltire, scutcheon, shield, spread eagle, subordinary, tenne, tincture, torse, tressure, unicorn, vair, vert, wreath, yale |
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