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tments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard. Abacus harmonicus (Mus.), an ancient diagram showing the structure and disposition of the keys of an instrument. Crabb.

One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.

An abacus. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.

molding, the convexity of which is one fourth of a circle, being a member just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo.

ead or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column.

That part of the Ionic capital between the abacus and quarter round, which forms the volute. Gwilt.

re used by the Greeks, but ranked as second of the five orders adopted by the Romans. See Abacus, Capital, Order.

A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; -- now called architrave.

er dimensions -- prevalent in Western Europe from about 1200 to 1475 a. d. See Illust. of Abacus, and Capital.

A caulicule or little volute under the abacus of the Corinthian capital.

Chinese abacus.

The Chinese abacus; a schwanpan. S. W. Williams.