Tableware
Ta″ble‐ware′ (?), n. Ware, or articles collectively, for table use.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Ta″ble‐ware′ (?), n. Ware, or articles collectively, for table use.
Ta″bling (?), n. 1. A forming into tables; a setting down in order.2. (Carp.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding.3. (N...
Tab″loid (?), n. A compressed portion of one or more drugs or chemicals, or of food, etc.
Tab″loid, a. Compressed or condensed, as into a tabloid; administrated in or as in tabloids, or small condensed bits; as, a tabloid form of imparting information.
Ta‐boo″ (?), n. 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, f...
Ta‐boo″, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Tabooed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Tabooing.] To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ...
Ta‐boo″ (?), a. [Written also tapu.] [Polynesian tabu, tapu, sacred, under restriction, a prohibition.] Set apart or sacred by religious custom among certain races of Polynesia,...
Ta″bor (?), n. [OF. tabor, tabour, F. tambour; cf. Pr. tabor, tanbor, Sp. & Pg. tambor, atambor, It. tamburo; all fr. Ar. & Per. tamb�r a kind of lute, or giutar, or Per. tabīr ...
Ta″bor, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Tabored (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Taboring.] [Cf. OF. taborer.] [Written also tabour.] 1. To play on a tabor, or little drum.2. To strike lightly and freque...
Ta″bor, v. t. To make (a sound) with a tabor.
Ta″bor‐er (?), n. One who plays on the tabor. Shak.
Tab″o‐ret (?), n. [Dim. of tabor. Cf. Tabret.] (Mus.) A small tabor. [Written also tabouret.]
Tab″o‐rine (?), n. [OF. tabourin, F. tambourin. See Tabor, and cf. Tambourine.] (Mus.) A small, shallow drum; a tabor.
Ta″bor‐ite (?), n.(Eccl. Hist.) One of certain Bohemian reformers who suffered persecution in the fifteenth century; — so called from Tabor, a hill or fortress where they encamp...
Ta″bour (?), n. & v. See Tabor.
Tab″ou‐ret (?), n. [F., dim. of OF. tabor, tabour, drum. See Tabor.] 1. Same as Taboret.2. A seat without arms or back, cushioned and stuffed: a high stool; — so called from its...
Tab″rere (?), n. A taborer. Spenser.
Tab″ret (?), n. A taboret. Young.
Ta‐bu″ (?), n. & v. See Taboo.
‖Tab″u‐la (?), n.; pl.Tabulæ (#). 1. A table; a tablet.2. (Zoöl.) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.Tabula rasa (�), a smoothed t...
Tab″u‐lar (?), a. [L. tabularis, fr. tabula a board, table. See Table.] Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the uses of the word). Specifically: —(a) Having...
Tab′u‐lar‐i‐za″tion (?), n. The act of tabularizing, or the state of being tabularized; formation into tables; tabulation.
Tab″u‐lar‐ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Tabularized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Tabularizing (?).] To tabulate.
‖Tab′u‐la″ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. tabulatus floored.] (Zoöl.) An artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Poc...
Tab″u‐late (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Tabulated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Tabulating.] [L. tabula a table. See Tabular.] 1. To form into a table or tables; to reduce to tables or synopse...
Tab′u‐la″tion (?), n. The act of forming into a table or tables; as, the tabulation of statistics.
Tac (?), n. [Cf. Tack, n., 4.] (O. Eng. Law) A kind of customary payment by a tenant; — a word used in old records. Cowell. Burrill.