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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Tāb'er-nāc'ū-lar, a. p. 1346Pertaining to a tabernacle, or to the Jewish tabernacle. 2. Formed in latticed work; latticed. Warton. 3. Of, or belonging to, a booth or shop; hence, common; low. [Rare.] “The word ‘short-comings,’…Tā'bēs, n. p. 1346(Med.) Progressive emaciation of the whole body, accompanied with hectic fever, and with no well-marked local symptoms.Ta-bēt'ic, a. p. 1346Of, or pertaining to, tabes; of the nature of tabes; affected with tabes.Tāb'id, a. p. 1346Relating to, or wasted by, tabes. In tabid persons, milk is the best restorative. Arbuthnot.Tăb'id-ly, adv. p. 1346In a tabid manner; wastingly; consumptively.Tăb'id-ness, n. p. 1346The state of being wasted by tabes.Ta-bĭf'ic or Ta-bĭf'ic-al, a. p. 1346Producing tabes; wasting.Tăb'i-tūde, n. p. 1346The state of one affected with tabes.Tāb'la-tūre, n. p. 1346(Paint.) A painting on a wall and ceiling; a single piece comprehended in one view, and formed according to one design; hence, a picture in general. Johnson. Shaftesbury. 2. (Mus.) An ancient mode of…Tā'ble, n. p. 1346A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of any thing; a slab. “A bagnio paved with fair tables of marble.” Sandys. 2. Hence, a slab, a plate, a leaf, or a flat…Tā'ble, v. t. p. 1347To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines. 2. To delineate, as on a tablet; to represent, as in a picture. [Obs.] “Tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation.” Bacon.…Tā'ble, v. i. p. 1347To live at the table of another; to diet; to eat. [Obs.] He . . . was driven from the society of men to table with the beasts. Smith.Tableau, n. p. 1347A striking and vivid representation; a picture. 2. A list or catalogue. [Rare.] 3. Especially, the representation of some scene by means of persons grouped in the proper manner, placed in appropriate…Tā'ble-bĕd, n. p. 1347A bed in the form of a table.Tā'ble-beer, n. p. 1347Beer for the table, or for common use; small beer.Tā'ble-bēll, n. p. 1347A small bell to be used at table for calling servants.Tā'ble-book, n. p. 1347A book on which any thing is traced or written without ink; tablets. Put into your table-book whatever you judge worthy. Dryden.Tā'ble-clōth, n. p. 1347A cloth for covering a table, especially for spreading on a table before the dishes are set for meals.Tā'ble-cŏv'er, n. p. 1347A cloth for covering a table, especially at other than meal-times.Table-d'hôte, n. p. 1347A common table for guests at a French hotel; an ordinary.Tā'ble-dī'a-mond, n. p. 1347A diamond cut with a flat surface.Tā'ble-lānd, n. p. 1347Elevated flat land; a plateau. The toppling crags of Duty scaled, Are close upon the shining table-lands To which our God himself is moon and sun. Tennyson.Tā'ble-lin'en, n. p. 1347Linen table-cloths, napkins, and the like.Tā'ble-mān, n. p. 1347A man at draughts; a piece of wood used in playing games at tables. [Rare.] Bacon.Tā'ble-ment, n. p. 1347(Arch.) A flat surface; a table. [Obs. and rare.] “Tablements and chapters of pillars.” Holland.Tā'ble-mōn'ey, n. p. 1347(Mil. or Naut.) An allowance sometimes made to officers over and above their pay, for table expenses.Tā'bler, n. p. 1347One who boards. [Rare.] Ainsworth.Tā'ble-rēnt, n. p. 1347(O. Eng. Law.) Rent paid to a bishop or religious, reserved or appropriated to his table or house-keeping. Burvill.Tā'ble-shōre, n. p. 1347(Naut.) A low, level shore.Tā'ble-spār, n. p. 1347(Min.) The same as TABULAR SPAR, q. v.Tā'ble-spōon, n. p. 1347A spoon used at the table; especially, one of the larger or largest spoons used at the table.Tā'ble-spōōn'ful, n. p. 1347As much as a table-spoon will hold; enough to fill a table-spoon.Tāb'let, n. p. 1347A small table or flat surface. 2. A small, flat piece of any thing on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave. 3. Hence, sometimes, a small picture; a miniature. [Obs.] 4. (pl.) A kind of pocket…Tā'ble-talk, n. p. 1347Conversation at table, or at meals.Tā'ble-talk'er, n. p. 1347One who talks or converses at the table.Tā'ble-tĭp'ping or Tā'ble-tūr'ning, n. p. 1347Certain movements of tables or other objects, attributed by some to the agency of departed spirits, and by others to the development of latent vital or spiritual forces, but more commonly ascribed to…Ta'bling, n. p. 1347A forming into tables; a setting down in order. 2. (Carp.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding. 3. (Naut.) A broad hem made on the skirts of…Tabling-house p. 1347a house where tables for games are kept, or where the game of tables is played; a gambling-house. [Obs.]Ta-bōō', n. p. 1347A political prohibition and religious consecration interdict, formerly of great force among the inhabitants of the islands of the Pacific; hence, a total prohibition of intercourse with or approach…Ta-bōō', v. t. p. 1347To forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach or use; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals. [Written also tabu.]Tā′bor, n. p. 1347A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife. [Also tabour.]Tā'bŏr, v. i. p. 1347To play on a tabor, or little drum. 2. To strike lightly and frequently. Her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, taboring upon their breasts. Nahum ii. 7.Tā'bŏr, v. t. p. 1347To make, as a sound, with a tabor.Tā'bōr-er, n. p. 1347One who beats the tabor. [R.] Shak.Tăb'o-rĕt, n. p. 1347A small tabor. [Rare.]Tăb'o-rīne or Tăb'o-rin, n. p. 1347A small, shallow drum; a tabor. Shak.Tā'bōr-ite, n. p. 1347(Eccl. Hist.) One of certain Bohemian reformers who suffered persecution in the fifteenth century, named from Tabor, a hill or fortress where they encamped during a part of their struggles. Brande.Tāb'qu-rēt, n. p. 1347A seat without arms or back, cushioned and stuffed; a stool. 2. An embroidery frame. Simmonds. Right of the tabouret, the privilege of sitting on a tabouret in the presence of the sovereign, formerly…Tāb'rere, n. p. 1347A taborer. [Obs.] Spenser.Tāb'ret, n. p. 1347A small tabor; a taboret. “The tabret’s sprightly sound.” Young.Ta-bū', n. & v. p. 1347See TABOO.Tăb'ŭ-lā, n. p. 1347A table. Tabula rasa. [Lat.] A smoothed tablet; hence, figuratively, the mind in its earliest state, before receiving impressions from without.Tăb'ū-lar, a. p. 1347Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table, in any of the uses of the word; as, (a.) Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock. (b.) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated. “Nodules . . .…Tăb'ū-lar-i-zā'tion, n. p. 1347The act of tabularizing, or the state of being tabularized; formation into tables.Tāb'ū-lar-īze, v. t. p. 1347To form into a table or tables; to reduce to a tabular form; to tabulate.Tāb'ū-lāte, v. t. p. 1347To reduce to tables or synopses. A philosophy is not worth the having, unless its results may be tabulated, and put in figures. I. Taylor. 2. To shape with a flat surface.Tāb'ū-lā'tion, n. p. 1347The act of forming into tables; as, the tabulation of statistics.Tāē, n. p. 1347(O. Law.) A kind of customary payment by a tenant; — a word used in old records. Cowell. Burvill.Tāe'a-ma-hāē or Tāe'a-ma-hā'ēa, n. p. 1347(Bot.) A tree of North America, commonly called balsam poplar; Populus balsamifera; also, the Calophyllum calaba, and Elaphrium tomentosum, trees of South America. 2. A resin yielded by certain…Tā'ce, n. p. 1347A crutch shaped like the letter T.