# Names, animals and meanings (I) *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 29 Jul 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### mary whalen *29 Jul 1998, 13:04* This is Sean Whalen (prion). Incus. Plural incuses or incudes. Latin for anvil. The middle bone in a chain of bones in the ears of mammals (the others are malleus (plural mallei; the hammer) and tympanum (plural tympana; the drum)). Remora's prothonotary. Small and ambitious. The anvil association relates to Incus being a black mechanic. Iolar. Irish for eagle or multitude, abundance, much, accessories. Flyer captured by Blood and Musk. prion ---