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

A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction. [Written also tabu.]

s an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person. [Written also tabour, and taber.]

One who plays on the tabor. Shak.

A small tabor. [Written also tabouret.]

A small, shallow drum; a tabor.

One of certain Bohemian reformers who suffered persecution in the fifteenth century; -- so called from Tabor, a hill or fortress where they encamped during a part of their struggles.

See Tabor.

Same as Taboret.

A taborer. [Obs.] Spenser.

A taboret. Young.

See Taboo.

A table; a tablet.

Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the uses of the word). Specifically: --

The act of tabularizing, or the state of being tabularized; formation into tables; tabulation.

To tabulate.

An artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are examples.

To form into a table or tables; to reduce to tables or synopses. A philosophy is not worth the having, unless its results may be tabulated, and put in figures. I. Taylor.

The act of forming into a table or tables; as, the tabulation of statistics.

A kind of customary payment by a tenant; -- a word used in old records. Cowell. Burrill.