. The Decorator's assistant. term, in addition to its meaning as above, isalso applied to designate, generally, a tablet ofmarble or other polished stone. The abacuswas likewise a kind of slate or tablet in use,amongst the ancients, for counting. Acanthus (from two Greek words—alee,pointed, and anthos, a flower). The foliatedornament of the Corinthian capital, would. appear, from various passages in the ancientwriters, to have been the Egyptian bean,which, from its flowers terminating in a point,bore this name amongst the Greeks. Acanthus, mollis, so called from the edge of with a kind of bord
. The Decorator's assistant. term, in addition to its meaning as above, isalso applied to designate, generally, a tablet ofmarble or other polished stone. The abacuswas likewise a kind of slate or tablet in use,amongst the ancients, for counting. Acanthus (from two Greek words—alee,pointed, and anthos, a flower). The foliatedornament of the Corinthian capital, would. appear, from various passages in the ancientwriters, to have been the Egyptian bean,which, from its flowers terminating in a point,bore this name amongst the Greeks. Acanthus, mollis, so called from the edge of with a kind of border or double edge carriedround the entire contour of the leaf. Acroter (from theGreek acron, pinnacleor summit), in whichgeneral sense this termis used by is, mostly, however,applied to designatethe top of the pedestalof statues. The acro-teria were also anyornaments placed at the very top or summit of a building. Acorn-Ornament, an enrichment very
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