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To underlet; to lease, as when a lessee leases to another person.

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

Same as Triblet.

A goldsmith's tool used in making rings. Ainsworth.

A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.

A tablet, panel, or compartment in ornamented or mosaic work.

A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc.

A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of color, or of brickwork, etc.

To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.

he hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back. Belly doublet, a doublet of the 16th century, hanging down so as to cover the belly. Shak. -- Belly fretting, the chafing of a horse's belly with a girth. Johnson. -- Belly timber, food. [Ludicrous] Prior. -- Belly worm, a worm that bre…

g for garments; stuffing; padding. [Obs.] How now, my sweet creature of bombast! Shak. Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least. Stubbes.

a cup, dish, or any hollow vessel used for holding anything. Saw I that insect on this goblet's brim I would remove it with an anxious pity. Coleridge.

in some onions, and capable, when separated, of propagating the plant; -- called also bulblet and brood bud.

A small bulb; a bulblet.

a hollow or humming noise, like that of a bumblebee; to cry as a bittern. As a bittern bumbleth in the mire. Chaucer.

chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton. [Sometimes written camelot and camblet.]

A tablet for ornament, or for receiving an inscription, formed like a sheet of paper with the edges rolled up; hence, any tablet of ornamental form.

ut; to contrive; to design; to plan. Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet. Shak. To carve out, to make or get by cutting, or as if by cutting; to cut out. "[Macbeth] with his brandished steel . . . carved out his passage." Shak. Fortunes were carved out of the property of the crown. Macaulay.…

Any small cubical or square body. Words . . . pasted upon little flat tablets or dies. Watts.

A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets connected by hinges. See Triptych.