Names, animals and meanings (I) The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 29 Jul 1998 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/503 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------