in Architecture, a small square member in the Doric capital, under the quarter round.

ANNULET is also a narrow flat moulding, which is common to divers places of the columns, as in the bases, capitals, &c. It is the same member which Vitruvius calls a fillet; Palladio, a lîfil or cincture; Scamozzi, and Mr Brown, a supercilium, lîfil, tinea, eyebrow, square, rabbit. See Architecture.

a little circle, born as a charge in coats of arms, as also added to them as a difference. Among the Romans it represented liberty and nobility. It also denotes strength and eternity, by reason of its circular form.

When this figure is added as a difference, some authors assert, that it serves to remind the bearer to achieve great actions.