In birds this appendage is also known as a wattle. A wreath or garland worn on the head. A string of beads. Looking good, apparently, because on Hannibal's head was a wig, which he wore into battle to cover his lack of locks. Julius Caesar used his chaplet for the same purpose, the comb-over having not yet been discovered.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
The raised arm of a sundial that indicates the time of day by its shadow. The remaining part of a parallelogram after a similar smaller parallelogram has been taken away from one of the corners. Eighty-six years in the making, one of the world's largest sundials has finally been installed at Place de la Concorde, as part of the Year 2000 festivities of the City of Paris. It takes an approach more cerebral than celebratory. The sundial's pointer, or gnomon, is the 109-foot Obelisk of Luxor.