tabernacle 
lasted eight days, during which nil tin- | "]>!'' u .ilhtTed at 
Jerusalem and dwelt in booths. (See Lev. xxili. ::l ' 
Num. xxlx. 12 :i.) Among the modern Jews the feast 
has been prolongo! one d:iy. 
tabernacle (t;il>'cr-na-kl), r. i. ; pret. imd pp. 
t/iiii-niin-ii'il, i>pr. tabernaeUng, [< inii<rintrli; 
M.'\ To sojourn or abide for a time ; take up a 
temporary habitation or resilience. 
He assumed mir nature, and taliernaclrd among us In 
tho flesh. .svviH, Works (ed. 1718X II. 467. (Latham.) 
He [Jesus Christ) titt-rnacled on earth as the true shc- 
kiuuh. Seha/, Hist. Christ. Church, I. ( 72. 
tabernacle-work (tab'er-na-kl-werk), n. In 
uri'li., rspeciitllyin the medieval Pointed styles: 
(a) A series or range of tabernacles ; a design 
Tabemacle-work. Church of Santa Maria della Spina, Pisa i 
I3th century. 
in which tabernacles form the characteristic 
feature, (b) The combinations of ornamental 
tracery usual in the canopies of decorated 
tabernacles ; hence, similar work in the carved 
stalls and screens of churches, etc. 
tabernacular (tab-er-nak'u-lar),o. [< LL. taber- 
naculnritt.t, a tent-maker, <. Hi. tabernaculum, a 
tent: see tabernacle.'] 1. Of or pertaining to 
the tabernacle ; hence, of or pertaining to other 
structures so named; like or characteristic of 
a tabernacle. [Used scornfully in the quotation, with 
reference to so-called Methodist tabernacles. See taber- 
nacle, 4.] 
[Curious, meaning extraordinary, an expression] horrid- 
ly tabernacular, and such that no gentleman could allow 
himself to touch it without gloves. 
DC Quineey, Works, VII. 89. (F. Hall.) 
2. Of the style or nature of an architectural 
tabernacle ; traceried or richly ornamented 
with decorative sculpture. 
The sides of every street were covered with . . . clois- 
ters crowned with rich and lofty pinnacles, and fronted 
with tabernacular or open work. 
T. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, II. 93. 
taberna), . Plural of taberna. 
Tabernaemontana (ta-ber'ne-mon-ta'nS), n. 
[NL., named after Jacobus Theodoras Taber- 
tueHMHtfiMw, a German physician and botanist 
(died 1590).] A genus of gamopetalous plants, 
of the order Apocynacese and tribe Plumeriese, 
type of the subtribe Taberntemontanex. It is 
characterized by cymose flowers, a calyx furnished at the 
base of Its five lobes with a continuous or interrupted 
ring of glands, and a fruit of two many-seeded berries or 
fleshy follicles which are large and globose or smaller and 
oblique or recurved. There are about 150 species, widely 
scattered through tropical regions. They are trees or 
shrubs, commonly smooth, bearing opposite thin or coria- 
ceous feather-veined leaves. The small cymes of white 
or yellowish salver-shaped flowers are terminal or various- 
ly placed, but not truly axillary. The smooth or three- 
ribbed pulpy fruit contains several or many ovoid or ob- 
long seeds with fleshy albumen : in several species it Is 
ornamental in T. macrocarpa and others of the section 
llejoita, mainly of the Malay archipelago, resembling a 
reddish orange In appearance. Instead of the acrid, dras- 
tic, and poisonous milky juice of most related genera, 
many species of 'r<t'>rni:r,nuj,f,i/i<i secrete a bland and 
wholesome fluid, sometimes useful as a nourishing drink, 
as In T. ntilii, the cow-tree or hya-hya of British Guiana, 
which yields a thick, sweet, white liquid, made somewhat 
sticky by the presence of caoutchouc. This species also 
yields a soft white wood and a medicinal bark. T. orien- 
talis, the Queensland cow-tree, and T. coronaria, known as 
Adam's apple or East Indian rote-bay, are sometimes cul- 
tivated, forming small evergreen trees, the latter under 
glass and also naturalized in tropical Asia from the Cape 
of Good Hope. Several other species are cultivated under 
glass for their large fragrant flowers and ornamental deep- 
green leathery leaves. T. crania, the kpokpoka-tree of 
Sierra Leone, produces a fiber there made into a cloth 
known aa ftooo-ciott. ^ species in Ceylon, known as din- 
ladner, probably T. dielmtnma, has been called .forbidden 
fruit, from its beautiful but poisonous fruit bearing marks 
fancied to be the prints of the teeth of Eve. 
taberner, . An obsolete or dialectal form of 
lurrnif t; 
tabes (ta'bex), . [L., a wasting away, con- 
sumption, < tiilirri; waste away, melt: see tab- 
ill 17 
nl. ] If. A gradually progressive emaciation. 
2. BUM a> tafta* doffoKt. See below Heredi- 
tary tabes, Kricilrlch's ataxla (which see, under <" 
- Spasmodic tabes, see spasmodic. Tabes dorsalta. 
Same as lijcmnetor attain (which see, under atazia). Ta- 
bes mesentertca, tuberculosis in the HUM nlet ir eluml-. 
tabescence (tii-bes'ens), ii. [< talw<-H(t) + 
-n;\ Tabef action or tabes; marasmus; mar- 
cescence; tabidness. 
tabescent (ta-bes'ent), a. [< L. tabescen(t-)s, 
ppr. of tabcxcere, waste away, inceptive of to- 
w-re, waste away: see toftcx.J 1. In med., suf- 
fering from tabes; wasting away; becoming 
emaciated. 2. In hot., wasting or shriveling. 
(inn/. [Karo.] 
tabetic (ta-bet'ik), a. and . [Irreg. < tabes + 
-r-iV.J I.' a. Pertaining to or affected with 
tabes (dorsalis). Tabetic arthropathy. Same as 
Ckarcofs disease (b) (which sec, under disease). Tabetic 
dementia, dementia complicated with tabes dorsalis, 
which may follow or precede the mental affection. 
II. . A patient suffering from tabes (dor- 
salis). 
table (tab'ik), a. [< tabes + -e.] Pertaining 
to, of the nature of, or affected with tabes 
(dorsalis). Alien, and Ari<r/., VI. 407. 
tabid (tab'id), a. [< F. tabide = Sp. tdbido = 
Pg. It. tabido, < L. tabidus, melting or wasting 
away, decaying, pining, < tabere, melt, waste 
away: see tabex.] Relating to or affected with 
tabes; losing flesh, weight, or strength; thin; 
wasted by disease ; marc id. 
In tabid persons milk Is the best restorative. 
Arbuthtu*, Aliments, I. 
tabidly (tab'id-li), adr. In a tabid manner; 
wastingly ; consumptively. 
He that Is tabidly inclined were unwise to pass his days 
In Portugal. Sir T. Broume, Letter to a Friend. 
tabidness (tab'id-nes), n. The state of being 
reduced by disease ; emaciation resulting from 
some disorder affecting the nutritive functions. 
l.iiijli, Nat. Hist. Lancashire, p. 62. 
tabi'flc (ta-bif'ik), n. [= F. tubijique = Sp. 
tabifico = It. tabiftco. < L. tabes, wasting, + 
-ftcusj < facere, make, do (see -fie). Cf. tabrfy.*] 
Causing tabes; deranging the organs of diges- 
tion and assimilation; deteriorating; wasting. 
tabint, tabinet, n. [Appar. an altered form of 
tabby (formerly taby, tabis), after satin, etc.: see 
tabby}.] Same as tabbinet. 
Cloth of tissue or tabine, 
That like beaten gold will shine. 
Middleton, Anything for a Quiet Life, ii. 2. 
tabinet, >i. See tabbinet. 
tabitude (tab'i-tud), n. [< L. tabitudo, con- 
sumption, decline, < tabere. melt, waste away: 
see tabid.'] The state of one affected with 
tabes. 
tablature (tab'la-tur), n. [< F. tablature, < 
ML. 'tabulatura,' ( L. tabula, a table, tablet, 
painting, picture: see table.] If. A tabular 
space or surface; any surface that may be used 
as a tablet. 
Whose shames, were they enamelled in the labtature of 
their foreheads, it would be a hideous visor. 
Ford, Honour Triumphant, ill. 
2. A tabular representation; specifically, a 
painting or design executed as a tablet on a 
distinct part of an extended surface, as a wall 
or ceiling. [Rare.] 
In painting one may give to any particular work the 
name of tablature, when the work Is In reality a single 
piece, comprehended in one view, and forro'd according 
to one single intelligence, meaning, or design. 
Sltaftesbury, Judgment of Hercules, Int. 
3f. Exhibition as in a table or catalogue ; an 
exemplification or specification ; a specimen. 
The fable has drawn two reigning characters in human 
life, and given two examples or tabuttures of them, under 
the persons of Prometheus and Eplmetheus. 
Bacon, Physical Fables, II., Expl. 
4t. In music: (a) The system of rules for the 
poetry of the mastersingers. (6) Musical no- 
tation in general, (c) A form of musical no- 
tation for various instruments, like the lute, 
the viol, the flute, the oboe, or the organ, 
used in Europe from the fifteenth to the be- 
ginning of the eighteenth century, it differed 
from the more general staff-notation in that It aimed to 
express not so much the pitch of the tones Intended as 
the mechanical process by which on the particular in- 
stniment those tones were to be produced. Tablature, 
therefore, varied according to the Instrument in view. 
In the case of the lute, for example, a horizontal line was 
usually drawn for each string, forming a kind of staff ; 
and letters or numerals were placed on these lines, iri'li- 
cating not only which strings were to be touched, but at 
what fret-- they were to be stopped. Various arbitrary 
signs were also used instead of letters or numerals, or In 
combination with them. Music thus noted was said U* be 
written lyra-tnty, in distinction from yamut-mty (in the 
staff-notation). In the cane of wind-instruments, like the 
table 
ll.it. 1 ' uli t, jMiinth nr ilolx wen- often |t!;iei it "ii III irilontal 
lines to indicate which hnu'T-li")'-* *' to be closed U> 
produce the required tones. In the case of the organ, 
notes were uftcti written out by their lettei munch. In 
all throe systems ami their numerous variants, marks 
were added above or In-low to in<li' -:ite tin .1. -ired dura- 
tion of the tones, the place and duntlion of rents, and va- 
rious details of style. Tahlature had obvious advantages 
u a notation for particular Instruments. \ 
niual marks now used are either derived from it or le 
vised on the same principle. The tonic sol-fa notation, 
that of thorough-rums, and the little used systems of nu- 
meral or character ttotes are essentially analogous to it. 
Also tabulature. 
6. In mint., the separation of cranial bones into 
an inner and an outer hard table or plate, \\itli 
intervening diploic or cancellated struct me. 
Tablature Is characteristic of the flat expansive hones of 
the skull, a> the frontal, parietal, and occipital. See table, 
>i., 1 (b\ and cut under diptot. 
table (ta'bl), n. an.l <i, [< ME. table, tabill, < 
OF. table, F. table = Pr. laiiln = Pg. taboo, a 
board, = Sp. tabla = It. tarola, a table, = AS. 
tafel, ttefl, a tablet, die, = D. tafel = OHG. 
tiivala, tavela, MHO. torch; Inn I, t;. iiij'el = 
Sw. tafel, taffel = Dan. tavle, a table, < L. tabula , 
a board, plank, a board to play on, a tablet for 
writing on, a writing, a book of accounts, a list 
of votes, a painted tablet, a picture, a votive 
tablet, a plot of ground, a bed, ML. also a 
bench, table, etc. ; appar., with dim. suffix -/". 
< / in!:, seen also in taberna, a hut, shed (of 
boards) (see tabernacle, tavern); or with dim. 
suffix -biila, </<(/ tan), stretch (see thin). 
Hence tablature, entablature, tablet, tabulate, 
etc.] I. . 1. A flat or flattish and relatively 
thin piece of wood, stone, metal, or other hard 
substance ; a board ; a plate ; a slab. 
The lawes ought to be like unto stonye tables, playne, 
sU-dfast, and Immoveable. Sptiuer, State of Ireland. 
The walles are Ragged with large tablet of white marble, 
well-nigh to the top. Sandys, Travailes, p. 189. 
Specifically (a) A slab, plate, or panel of some solid ma- 
terial with one surface (rarely both surfaces) smooth or 
polished for some purpose, used either separately or as 
part of a structural combination. This sense is now chiefly 
obsolete, except in some historical or special cases : as, 
the tables of the law ; the table (mensa) of an altar. A 
board or panel on which a picture was painted was for- 
merly called a table, and also a board on which a game, as 
draughts or checkers, was played ; the two leaves of a back- 
gammon-board are called taUri - the outer and inner (or 
home) tiililr*. See def. 7 ( M. 
Hew thee two tablet of stone like unto the first ; and I 
will write upon these tables the words that were in the 
lii -t tables, which thou brakest. Ex. xxxiv. 1. 
Willim Jones proveth Mr. Darrell and my ladye to sett 
fj or iij hours together divers times in the dyn ing chamber 
at ffarley with a pair [of j laMex between them, never play- 
ing, but leaning over the table and talking togethers. 
Darrell Papers (H. Ball's Society in Elizabethan Age, 
[App. it). 
Titian's famous table [panel] of the altar-piece, with the 
pictures of Venetian senators from great-grandfather to 
great-grandson. Dryden, lied, of Hist, of the League. 
Item, n table with the picture of the Lady Elizabeth her 
Grace. Quoted In S. and (,'., 7th ser., I. 135. 
The tnHr for playing at goose Is usually an impression 
from a copper-plate pasted upon a cartoon about the size 
of a sheet almanack. .Struct, Sports and Pastimes, p. 437. 
(6t) A votive tablet. 
Even this had been your Elegy, which now 
Is offered for your health, the table of my vow. 
Dryden, To Duchess of Ormond, 1. 130. 
(c) In limit., one of the two lamina? (outer and inner) of 
any of the cranial bones, separated from each other, ex- 
cept in the thinnest parts, by the spongy or cellular 
diploe. They are composed of compact hony tissue ; the 
inner table is close-grained, shiny, and hrittle(whence it is 
called the vitreous table). Also called tablet. See tablature, 5. 
(</) In glass-malting: (1) One of the disks or circular plates 
into which crown-glass is formed from the molten metal 
by blowing, rolling, and flashing. The plates are usually 
about four and a half feet In diameter, though sometimes 
much larger. 
A pot containing half a ton commonly produces 100 
tables. Amer. Cyc., VIII. 17. 
Frequently the circular tables are used just as they come 
from the oven, tinted In amber or opalescent shades. 
Harper's Mag., LXXIX. 254. 
(2) The flat plate with a raised rim on which plate-glass 
is formed. (') In mech., that part of a machine-tool on 
which work is placed to be operated upon. It Is adjust- 
able In height, Is free to move laterally or otherwise, and 
Is perforated with slots for the clamps which secure the 
article to be treated. Also called carriage and platen. (/) 
In ireariwi, the board or bar in a draw-loom to which the 
tails of the harness are attached. 
2. Aii article of furniture consisting of a flat 
top (the table proper), of wood, stone, or other 
solid material, resting on legs or on a pillar, 
with or without connecting framework; in spe- 
cific use, a piece of furniture with a flat top on 
which meals are served, articles of use or orna- 
ment are placed, or some occupation is carried 
on: as, a dining-taWe. writing-taft/e. work-taW* . 
kitchen-rV/6fe ; a billiard-fr/frte ; a tailors' cnt- 
ting-table; a surgeons' 
