Homepage
Login
Profile
BookClubs
dmBox
Read Ebook: The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section T U V and W by Project Gutenberg Webster Noah
Font size:
Background color:
Text color:
Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page Prev Page
Ebook has 17895 lines and 426987 words, and 358 pages
The opposite walls are painted by Rubens, which, with that other of the Infanta taking leave of Don Philip, is a most incomparable table.
Evelyn.
St. Antony has a table that hangs up to him from a poor peasant.
Addison.
A view of the contents of a work; a statement of the principal topics discussed; an index; a syllabus; a synopsis; as, a table of contents.
A list of substances and their properties; especially, a list of the elementary substances with their atomic weights, densities, symbols, etc.
Any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures, currency, specific gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following some law, and expressing particular values corresponding to certain other numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are taken out for use in computations; as, tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity tables; interest tables; astronomical tables, etc.
The arrangement or disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the hand.
Mistress of a fairer table Hath not history for fable.
B. Jonson.
We may again Give to our tables meat.
Shak.
The nymph the table spread.
Pope.
I drink the general joy of the whole table.
Shak.
This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice, That, when he plays at tables, chides the dice.
Shak.
A circular plate or table of about five feet diameter weighs on an average nine pounds.
Ure.
Ta"ble , v. t. 1. To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines.
Tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation.
Bacon.
Ta"ble, v. i. To live at the table of another; to board; to eat. "He . . . was driven from the society of men to table with the beasts." South.
||Ta`bleau" , n.; pl. Tableaux . 1. A striking and vivid representation; a picture.
||Ta`bleau" vi`vant" ; pl. Tableaux vivants . Same as Tableau, n., 2.
Put into your tablebook whatever you judge worthy.
Dryden.
||Ta"ble d'h?te" ; pl. Tables d'h?te . A common table for guests at a hotel; an ordinary.
Ta"ble-land` , n. A broad, level, elevated area of land; a plateau.
The toppling crags of Duty scaled, Are close upon the shining table-lands To which our God himself is moon and sun.
Tennyson.
Tablements and chapters of pillars.
Holland.
Ta"bler , n. 1. One who boards.
Ta"blet , n. 1. A small table or flat surface.
Ta"bling , n. 1. A forming into tables; a setting down in order.
Tabling house, a gambling house. Northbrooke.
Ta"bor , n. A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person.
Ta"bor, v. i. 1. To play on a tabor, or little drum.
Ta"bor, v. t. To make with a tabor.
Ta"bour , n. & v. See Tabor.
Right of the tabouret, the privilege of sitting on a tabouret in the presence of the severeign, formerly granted to certain ladies of high rank at the French court.
Tab"rere , n. A taborer. Spenser.
Tab"ret , n. A taboret. Young.
Tabula rasa , 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 innate ideas.
Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock.
Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.
Nodules . . . that are tabular and plated.
Woodward.
Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page Prev Page