Definition of "ancon" []

• A projecting bracket that is used in classical architecture to carry the upper elements of a cornice; a console. (noun)

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• "[* For example, the sheep with very short legs, called ancon sheep in Connecticut, and examined by Sir Everard Home."
• "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"
• "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."