n.
A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.
n.
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.
n.
Ware, or articles collectively, for table use.
n.
A forming into tables; a setting down in order.
n.
The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding.
n.
A broad hem on the edge of a sail.
n.
Act of playing at tables. See Table, n., 10.
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, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction.
v. t.
To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals.
n.
A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person.
v. i.
To play on a tabor, or little drum.
v. i.
To strike lightly and frequently.
v. t.
To make (a sound) with a tabor.
n.
One who plays on the tabor.