Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A projecting bracket that is used in classical architecture to carry the upper elements of a cornice; a console.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, the olecranon; the upper end of the ulna; the elbow. See cut under
forearm . - noun In architecture, any projection designed to support a cornice or other structural feature, as a console or a corbel.
- noun Also written
ancone . - noun The name of a celebrated breed of sheep, originated in Massachusetts in 1791 from a ram having a long body and short, crooked legs, and therefore unable to leap fences. It was also known as the otter breed, and is now extinct.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The olecranon, or the elbow.
- noun (Zoöl.) a breed of sheep with short crooked legs and long back. It originated in Massachusetts in 1791; -- called also the
otter breed . - noun obsolete The corner or quoin of a wall, cross-beam, or rafter.
- noun A bracket supporting a cornice; a console.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The
corner of a wall or rafter. - noun A
console that appears to support acornice . - noun anatomy The
elbow .
Etymologies
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Examples
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[* For example, the sheep with very short legs, called ancon sheep in Connecticut, and examined by Sir Everard Home.
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In plants and in animals, accidental varieties, formed under our own eyes, have become fixed, and have been propagated; * (* For example, the sheep with very short legs, called ancon sheep in Connecticut, and examined by Sir Everard
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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The targets were called Ancilia from their form; for they are not made round, nor like proper targets, of a complete circumference, but are cut out into a wavy line, the ends of which are rounded off and turned in at the thickest part towards each other; so that their shape is curvilinear, or, in Greek, ancylon; or the name may come from ancon, the elbow, on which they are carried.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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The Epitrochleo-anconæus, a small muscle often present runs from the back of the inner condyle to the olecranon, over the ulnar nerve.
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So it has probably been with the turnspit dog; and this is known to have been the case with the ancon sheep.
I. Variation under Domestication. Principles of Selection Anciently Followed, and Their Effects 1909
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So it has probably been with the turnspit dog; and this is known to have been the case with the ancon sheep.
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So it has probably been with the turnspit dog; and this is known to have been the case with the ancon sheep.
On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 01 (historical) Charles Darwin 1859
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So it has probably been with the turnspit dog; and this is known to have been the case with the ancon sheep.
On the origin of species Charles Darwin 1845
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There is, also, a turnspit, with short and crooked legs, closely resembling the existing variety; but this kind of monstrosity is so common with various animals, as with the ancon sheep, and even, according to Rengger, with jaguars in
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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These sheep are remarkable from transmitting their character so truly that Colonel Humphreys [238] never heard of "but one questionable case" of an ancon ram and ewe not producing ancon offspring.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
bilby commented on the word ancon
A dwarf anaconda.
November 18, 2008