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A table.
One who boards.
One who boards others for hire.
of Table d'hote
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.
of Tablespoonful
A small table or flat surface.
A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.
Hence, a small picture; a miniature.
A kind of pocket memorandum book.
A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.
A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.
Ware, or articles collectively, for table use.
A forming into tables; a setting down in order.
The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding.
A broad hem on the edge of a sail.
Board; support.
Act of playing at tables. See Table, n., 10.
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.