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S.X. Board. A wallboard with a white mat surface, consisting 

 of wood and vegetable fibres compressed into layers. 



Sycamore (Acer pseudo platinus). A fairly hard, close-grained 

 white wood, valuable artistically as well as commercially. 

 Used for printing and mangle rollers, also by manufacturers 

 of dairy utensils, toymakers, brushmakers, bobbin turners, 

 also for musical instruments (especially violins). 



Table. An article of furniture consisting of a flat surface raised 

 on legs. It is a term endowed with an extensive application, 

 not restricted to a horizontal plane or position, as " altar 

 table," " table of the laws," etc. Its most common use is 

 " dining table," " kitchen table," " dressing table," e.g., 

 where it is allied to " board " ; instance, H.M. " Board of 

 green cloth," primarily a table covered with that material. 

 See " Board " and " Abacus." This term has travelled to 

 machinery, instance " saw-table." 



Taint. (1) To imbue or impregnate, as with some extraneous 

 matter which alters the sensible qualities of the substance. 

 (2) To be infected or corrupted, or to be touched with some- 

 thing corrupted ; a term often used in connection with 

 sawn-wood goods out of condition, spotted, damaged with 

 rot or decayed, often engendered in the hold of a ship or by 

 close piling. 



Tally (French, tallier ; Spanish, tallar). To cut ; its equivalent in 

 the Teutonic languages is nick and notch. Throughout its 

 ramifications as a verb, active or neuter, it is associated with 

 wood ; primarily it is a cut or incision on a piece of wood, but 

 in the timber-trade, especially the heavy part connected with 

 shipping and handling cargoes, the lead-pencil takes the 

 place of the knife. See " Tally-stick," " board," and 

 " man." 



Tally-board. A piece of soft white board, about 2 ft. long, 9 in. to 

 11 in. broad, and 1 in. thick (when new), on which tally-men 

 mark the various sizes, etc., of the goods to be tallied, indi- 

 cating them in fives, made by five pencil strokes, thus : \\\\ ; 

 or in tens X, or twenties XX ; working and counting on 

 fives being the most practised. Such tallies are only kept a 

 short time in the offices, when the boards are re-planed and 

 re-used or worn thinner. 



