annulet

annulet
    n 1: (heraldry) a charge in the shape of a circle; "a hollow
         roundel" [syn: {annulet}, {roundel}]
    2: molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column [syn:
       {annulet}, {bandelet}, {bandelette}, {bandlet}, {square and
       rabbet}]
    3: a small ring
    

Annulet \An"nu*let\, n. [Dim. of annulus.]
   1. A little ring. --Tennyson.
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   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.
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   3. (Her.) A little circle borne as a charge.
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   4. (Zool.) A narrow circle of some distinct color on a
      surface or round an organ.
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108 Moby Thesaurus words for "annulet":
      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