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Webster 1913 Edition


Scamillus

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Sca-mil′lus

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Noun.
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pl.
Scamilli
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[L., originally, a little bench, dim. of
scamnum
bench, stool.]
(Arch.)
A sort of second plinth or block, below the bases of Ionic and Corinthian columns, generally without moldings, and of smaller size horizontally than the pedestal.