Tāb'let, n.
n. [Fr. tablette, diminutive of table.]
Sense 1. A small table or flat surface.
Sense 2. A small, flat piece of any thing on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave.
Sense 3. Hence, sometimes, a small picture; a miniature. [Obs.]
Sense 4. (pl.) A kind of pocket memorandum-book.
Sense 5. A medicine in a square form; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague. Bacon.
Sense 6. (Med.) A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients, usually with sugar, and formed into little flat squares;—called also lozenge and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.