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

A clay tablet on which was inscribed a contract, for safe keeping. Such tablets were inclosed in an outer case (often called the envelope), on which was inscribed a duplicate of the inscription on the inclosed tablet.

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.

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.

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.

Of or pertaining to ivory. "[She] read from tablet eburnine." Sir W. Scott.

Same as Eponymous. Tablets . . . which bear eponymic dates. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

Of or pertaining to the ancient town of Eugubium (now Gubbio); as, the Eugubine tablets, or tables, or inscriptions.

A fillet; a band for the head. "The headbands and the tablets." Is. iii. 20.

[so called from Krems or Kremnitz, in Austria], a pure variety of white lead, formed into tablets, and called also Krems, or Kremnitz, white, and Vienna white. -- Lead arming, tallow put in the hollow of a sounding lead. See To arm the lead (below). -- Lead colic. See under Colic. -- Lead color, a deep bluish gray c…

A circular or oval (or, sometimes, square) tablet bearing a figure or figures represented in relief.

A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes his pigments. [Written also pallet.]

An engraved tablet, usually of brass, set up in a public place.

A tablet or board, on which is a representation of Christ, of the Virgin Mary, or of some saint and which, in the Mass, was kissed by the priest and then by the people, in mediæval times; an osculatory. It is still used in communities, confraternities, etc. Kiss the pax, and be quiet like your neighbors. Chapman.…

A tablet; a register; hence, a list or scheme inscribed on a tablet. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A small tablet of wood supported on casters and having a pencil attached. The characters produced by the pencil on paper, while the hand rests on the instrument and it is allowed to move, are sometimes translated as of oracular or supernatural import.