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… … 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.…
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