Crossword-Solution: ABACI 5 letters, 153 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The two forces come to rest in the abaci, which, as the crowning members of the columns, directly carry the weight of the entire entablature.

The downward force is already manifest in the widened base of the column, where it works in conjunction with the inward tendency, and shows its effect at the critical points at the top of the supporting column--in the spreading echinus with its horizontal bands beneath and in the horizontal lines of the abaci.

There is the poor gentleman's garret high on the topmost story of some tottering _insula_, close beneath the tiles, where the doves nest: lectus erat Codro Procula minor, urceoli sex ornamentum abaci nec non et parvulus infra cantharus, et recubans sub eodem marmore Chiro iamque vetus graecos servabat cista libellos, et divina opici rodebant carmina mures (iii.

Still less can the temple have ever been overlaid with stucco; but that it was intended to do so, we may infer from the fact that the abaci of the capitals have projecting points probably for the purpose of holding the plaster.

The abaci of the Early English capitals in the main arcade are of Barnack stone, which is harder than clunch and so more suitable for bearing a weight.