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A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets [i. e., tablets] . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.

That which preserves, or has the power of preserving; a presevative agent. To wear tablets as preservatives against the plague. Bacon.

Any law, which, after it had passed the Athenian senate, was fixed on a tablet for public inspection previously to its being proposed to the general assembly of the people.

That which contains something, as a tablet; a [R.] Shak.

A flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally at a distance from the floor, to hold objects of use or ornament.

A tablet for writing upon.

An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax.

Of or pertaining to stylography; used in stylography; as, stylographic tablets.

A mode of writing or tracing lines by means of a style on cards or tablets.

A pen-shaped pointing device used to specify the cursor position on a graphics tablet.

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

A table; a tablet.

tal of Amenophis IV., whose archive chamber was discovered there in 1887. A collection of tablets (called the Tel-el-Amarna, or the Amarna, tablets) was found here, forming the Asiatic correspondence (Tel-el-Amarna letters) of Amenophis IV. and his father, Amenophis III., written in cuneiform characters. It is an impor…

of the Doric order, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of a rectangular tablet, slightly projecting, and divided nearly to the top by two parallel and perpendicular gutters, or channels, called glyphs, into three parts, or spaces, called femora. A half channel, or glyph, is also cut upon each of the p…

A writing tablet in three parts, two of which fold over on the middle part.

A medicinal tablet or lozenge; strictly, one of circular form.

A kind of tablet or lozenge; a troche.

or in fulfillment of a vow; consecrated by a vow; devoted; as, votive offerings; a votive tablet. "Votive incense." Keble. We reached a votive stone, that bears the name Of Aloys Reding. Wordsworth. Embellishments of flowers and votive garlands. Motley. Votive medal, a medal struck in grateful commemoration of some aus…

Covered with wax; waxed; as, a waxen tablet.