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See Taboo.

One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids. Tabula rasa ( Etym: [L.], a smoothed tablet; hence, figuratively, the mind in its earliest state, before receiving impressions from without; -- a term used by Hobbes, Locke, and others, in maintaining a theory opposed to the doctrine of…

Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock.

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.

ce 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.

Cup-shaped; saucer-shaped; acetabuliform.

The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.

Furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc.

Shaped like a shallow; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx. Gray.

A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc.

Full of thought; thoughtful. [R.] Leigh Hunt.

Of or pertaining to constables; consisting of constables.

A constabulary. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

The act of stabling or housing beasts.

An acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint. [Obs.] Holland.

A work in which subjects are exhibited in a tabular from or arrangement; as, an historical atlas.

A lemon-yellow phosphate of uranium and calcium occurring in tabular crystals with basal cleavage, and in micalike scales. H., 2- 2.5. Sp. gr., 3.05-3.19.