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Producing tabes; wasting; tabefying.

See Tabbinet. Thackeray.

To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines.

A common table for guests at a hotel; an ordinary.

Typesetting of tabular nmatter, or the type matter set in tabular form.

ed area of 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.

A striking and vivid representation; a picture.

Same as Tableau, n., 2.

A tablet; a notebook. Put into your tablebook whatever you judge worthly. Dryden.

A cloth for covering a table, especially one with which a table is covered before the dishes, etc., are set on for meals.

A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10. [R.] Bacon.

A table. [Obs.] Tablements and chapters of pillars. Holland.

One who boards. [Obs.]

A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc.

As much as a tablespoon will hold; enough to fill a tablespoon. It is usually reckoned as one half of a fluid ounce, or four fluid drams.

A small table or flat surface.

Ware, or articles collectively, for table use.

A forming into tables; a setting down in order.

Compressed or condensed, as into a tabloid; administrated in or as in tabloids, or small condensed bits; as, a tabloid form of imparting information.

n and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction. [Written also tabu.]