[ANSTHRLD] Device Question

[tmcd at panix.com]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 nweders at mail.utexas.edu wrote:
> [someone else]
> >  grasping their tail in their mouth I believe that would be easier
> >said as, "in annulo".  Just my two bits.
>
> actually a wrym with its tail in it's mouth can also be called an
> aroborus

"Ouroboros".

But that's one (1) snake or other reptilian with one head and one tail
in a full circle, a reptilian ring.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros>

"In annulo" is for one or more charges laid as if on an annulus -- a
ring.
<http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:SoGhIk3XwWlkHM:www.aeheralds.net/Letters/AE81/Eldjarn_color.jpg>
is one; <http://badger.cx/heraldry/roll/arms/LouisedeLauzun.gif>
another.

The proposed design is topologically a figure-8, not a ring.

Daniel Lindicolinum
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