单词 | ancon |
释义 | anconn. 1. Physiol. The elbow. (See quot.) ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > arm > [noun] > elbow elbowc1000 cubit1544 ply1575 knop1652 ancon1706 noop1818 capitellum1825 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (ed. 6) Ancon..the Elbow..sometimes taken by Anatomists for the backward and larger shooting forth of the Bone of the Arm called Vlna. 1853 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Ancon, term for the elbow; or the triangular surface of the olecranon process of the ulna. 2. Archit. Thesaurus » Categories » a. The corner or quoin of a wall, cross-beam, or rafter. b. One of ‘the trusses or consoles sometimes employed in the dressings or antepagmenta of apertures, serving as an apparent support to the cornice of them at the flanks.’ Gwilt. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > console ancon1706 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > [noun] > framing > part of framing jamb1428 scuncheon1435 cheek1485 scunch1611 ancon1706 shutting stile1909 backband1940 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (ed. 6) (at cited word), In Architecture Ancones are the corners or coins of Walls..Cross-beams or Rafters. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Ancon..in the antient architecture, the brackets, or shouldering pieces, called consoles by the moderns. 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 583 Consoles are called, according to their form, ancones or trusses, mutules, and modillions. 3. ancon sheep n. A race with long bodies, and very short legs, the fore-legs crooked; bred from a single lamb born with these peculiarities in 1791. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > specific breeds or members of > Ancon otter sheep1809 ancon sheep1819 otter1890 1819 Laurence Phys. (1848) 312 Where common ewes have had twins by ancon rams. 1852 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. I. ix. 342 The sheep with very short legs, called ancon sheep in Connecticut. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1884; most recently modified version published online November 2010). < n.1706 |
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