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A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding.

or kind of pestle, flat at the bottom, used for grinding pigments or drugs, etc., upon a slab of similar material.

e and no cutting edge, rounded at the end, used by painters to mix colors on the grinding slab or palette. -- To set the palette (Paint.), to lay upon it the required pigments in a certain order, according to the intended use of them in a picture. Fairholt.

stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves. [Obs.] Chaucer. Paling board, one of the slabs sawed from the sides of a log to fit it to be sawed into boards. [Eng.]

A slab or plank of wood upon which, instead of canvas, a picture is painted.

A brick or slab used for paving.

A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, haüynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; -- called also clinkstone.

f metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch.

A split log or heavy slab with the face smoothed; as, a floor made of puncheons. [U.S.] Bartlett.

A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.

ck having a foliated structure (see Foliation) and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates. The common kinds are mica schist, and hornblendic schist, consisting chiefly of quartz with mica or hornblende and often feldspar.

A slab of stone used as a veneer for coarse masonry. Knight.

To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth; to defile with drivel; to slabber.

See Slabber.

firm composition of emery and a certain kind of cement, used for making grinding wheels, slabs, etc.

d; as, thick vapors. Also used figuratively; as, thick darkness. Make the gruel thick and slab. Shak.

A small slab of marble or other material used for flooring.