TABLET

n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A small table or flat surface.

2.
n.

A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.

3.
n.

Hence, a small picture; a miniature. [Obs.]

4.
n.

A kind of pocket memorandum book.

5.
n.

A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.

6.
n.

A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.