table 
Twelve Tables, the tables on which were in-raved : 
promulgated ill Koine (t;, I and l.'.o n i -. isluu t statements of 
those rub-- of Roman law whieh were most important in 
the attaint of daily life. They were draw n up in In e part. 
It seems, from the existing law, and in part as new Inf- 
lation, by I he decemvirs, and In-nee w. real tlrst called tin- 
/,,,, ,,i ll,,- <t,'i-i-,in-irx. Ten were llrst promulgated, and 
tw.. niore van soon added. They fonned thcreaftci tin- 
principal basis or source of the Human Jurisprudent 
VltreOUS table, the inner (hard and brittle) table of any 
cranial bone. Also called tabula ritn-a. See def. I <fc>. 
WiggleBWOrth Table, a table of mortality which has 
been follow, -i I to a considerable extent in New Kngland, 
particularly as a guide for the courts in determining the 
value of life estates, etc. 
U. ii. 1. Pertwning to or provided f or tbw: 
as. lulili- miuisites. 2. Shaped like a table. 
Table beer, beer for dalF 
,ii4! table-plane 
table-board (ta'bi-bord). //. it. A board on table-land (trri.i -lam: . . AM .-i.-vatcd and 
which games arc plnyi-d. us n li;i<-kgammon- 
1 n in nl. 
Shaking your elbow at the table-board. 
Wetter, Devil's Law-Case, 11. 1. 
2. A table as a piece of furniture, llulliin-ll. 
[Prov. Kng.] 
liedding and other necessary furniture had been sent 
up by currier, and with the addition of a set of long "ta- 
Ut-bordet," "formes," and a "countinge table," together 
with a few do/en trenchers, pewter pots, and other sub- 
-tantial ware, the arrangements might be considered com- 
plete for a bachelor establishment. 
// Hull, Soei.-t) in Illizabethan Age, Vll. 
3. Board without lodging. 
[U.B.1 
If. A book of tab- 
lets; a note-book for the pocket; a memoran- 
ihnii-book or commonplace-book. Such books, 
with leaves of wood, slate, ivory, v.-lliiiu, or pa- 
per, were formerly in common use. 
What might yuu . . . think. 
If I had play'd the desk or table-book f 
Shale., Hamlet, II. !::. 
I always kept a large table-book In my pocket : and, as 
soon as I left the company, I Immediately entered the 
choicest expressions that passed during the visit. 
Sir(ft, Polite Conversation, Int. 
usually illustrated, and designed to be kept on 
a table for desultory inspection or reading. 
The Christmas table-book has well nigh disappeared, 
and well-illustrated editions of famous works are becom- 
ing more and more popular. Literary World. 
3. A book of arithmetical or other tables, for 
use in schools, counting-houses, etc. 
table-carpet (ta'bl-kar'pet), M. A table-cloth 
other words, fine rugs) were in common use 
fastening anything to a table or a fixed board. 
- Swivel" tablWUimp, a clamp used to 
ally use at meals: usually weak ; /_ """" ' '""" 
amrinexpensive.- Table cutlery, cutting implements, table-bOOK (t 
as knives, for table use; hence, by extension, all articles 
for table use w holly or partly of steel, including furks and 
nut-crackers. Table entertainment, a public enter- 
tainment given by a single perfurmcr standing or sitting 
behind a table placed between himself and the audience, 
and consisting of a medley of songs, recitations, mono, 
locue in character, caricature, etc. .Such entertainments 
originated about the middle of the eighteenth century. 
Table glass, glass vessels for table use. Table moun- 
tain, a mountain having a flat top. 
The flat summits of mountains aie sometimes called 
"tables," and especially in California, where there are sev- 
eral "tn/ili i- -dl fragments of great lava-Hows, 
capped usually with horizontal or table-like masses of 
basalt. J. D. Whitney, Names and Places, p. 181. 
table (ta'bl), i'.; pret. and pp. inlilnl. ppr. ta- 
bliiii/. [In part < OF. tabln; < Ml.,, tabulan; 
board, floor; in part from the mod. noun. Cf. 
tuliulate.'] I. trans. 1. To form into a list or 
catalogue ; tabulate ; catalogue. [Obsolete or 
Though the catalogue of his endowments had been tabled 
by his side, and I to peruse him by Items. 
Shall., Cymbellne, 1. 4. 6. 
2f. To make a table or picture of; delineate; 
depict. 
Fit to be tabled and 
Ution. 
3f. To entertain at table ; board. 
At Sienna I was tutili-il in the House of one Alberto 
Sclpioni, an Old Roman Courtier. 
Sir B. Watton, Rellquiaj, p. 344. 
4. To lay upon a table ; pay down. [Rare.] 
Forty thousand francs : to such length will the father- 
in-law . . . table ready-money. Carlyle, Misc., IV. 97. 
6. To lay on the table, in the parliamentary 
sense ; lay aside for future consideration or till 
called up again : as, to table a resolution. 
The amendment which was always present, which was 
rejected and tabled and postponed. 
The Century, XXXVII. 873. 
6. In carp., to fix or set, 
into another, by alternate seams and projec 
tions on each, to prevent the pieces from draw- 
ing apart or slipping upon one another. 7. 
Xaut., to strengthen, as a sail, by making broad 
hems on the head-leeches and the foot, for the 
attachment of the bolt-rope. 
II. in trans. 1. To eat or live at the table of 
another; board. 
He [Nebuchadnezzar] was driven from the society of 
men to table with the beasts. South, Sermons. 
The guest lodged with a mercer, but tabled, with his 
wife and servants, at the Inn. 
U. Ball, Society in Elizabethan Age, vi. 
2f. To play the game of tables. 
Neither dicing, carding, tabling, nor other dluelish 
games to be frequented. Hakluyt'g Voyagct, I. 227. 
table-anvil (ta'bl-an'vil), n. A small anvil 
which can be screwed to a table : used for bend- 
ing metal plates and wires in repairing, etc. 
E. II. Knight. 
tableau (tab-lo'), ; pi. tableaux (-loz')- [< F. 
tableau, a table, picture, dim. of table, a ta- 
ble, picture: see table.'} 1. A picture, or a 
gem-rally li-vi-1 r.-Li<m of i-miMili-riilili- cxti-nt : 
a plateau. Both '</'' lumt and I'tnt: mi arc In common 
use among physical geographers with essentially the same 
I mountains frequently rise from or 
i ncircle (aide. lands. The region of the most ext. 
table-lands of the w.n Id is central Asia; the Pyrenees, 
the Alps, and tin- ranciiMis, on the other hand, are 
mountain nystems characterized by the absence of pla 
leans. The vast area embraced between the Kocky Mom.. 
tains and the Sierra Nevada and Cascade ranges ls a pla- 
teau region That part north of the Great Basin nas 
been called tin "NorUum or CotamMUL Plateau region 
of the Cordilleras," and that south of the Great Basin 
the - Southern or Colorado Plateau '; and this ls a region 
of great Interest, both from Its scenery and from its geo- 
logical structure. 
The toppling crags of Duty scaled 
Are close upon the shining tiMe-landt 
To which our OIK! Himself Is moon and sun. 
Tennyum, Death of Wellington, vlli. 
Plateau and table-land are nearly synony s ti rim 
the one French, but now thoroughly Anglicized, the 
other Knglish. These words carry with them the Idea 
of elevation and extent. 
J. D. Whitney, Names and Places, p. 180. 
table-lathe (ta'bl-laTH), w. A small hill." 
which, for use, is clamped to a table. It may 
be run by hand or by a-driving-wheel in a mov- 
able fraiiii-. /.'. //. ~K nil/lit. 
2. A book for the table; an ornamental book, table-leaf (ta'bl-lef), n. 1. A board at the 
side or end of a table, hinged so as to be let 
down when not in use; a table-flap. 2. One 
of the movable boards forming the top of an 
extension-table. Table-leaf Joint, a form of joint 
used for the leaves of desks and tables, for rules, for some 
kinds of shutter, etc. It haa a molded edge forming a 
quarter-round, the two parts being respectively convex 
and concave, and moving on each other in the manner of 
a knuckle-joint. Also called rule-joint. E. H. Knight. 
table-lifting (ta'bl -lifting), . The act of 
causing a table to rise by laying the tips of the 
fingers or the palms of the hands upon its up- 
per surface, as in table-tipping. 
He would have really "exploded the whole nonsense" 
of table-lifting. Proe. Soe. Piych. Research, I. 248. 
the serv'lce for a meal. (6) A UtieioTer. " mlddleand fore flnger, It signifies effusion of blood asl 
table-Clothing (ta'bl -klo'THing), H. Table- said before. Sander,, Chiromancy, p. 75. (Ho 
linen; table-cloths, napkins, etc., for use in table-linen (ta'bl-lin'en), . Pieces of cloth, 
the service of the table. commonly of linen damask, used in the service 
I've got lots o' sheeting, and table -dothi,w, and towel- of the table. See table-eliith, 
Hng. George Eliot, Adam Bede, vi. tablemant (ta'bl-man), H. 1. 
table-cover (ta'bl-kuv'er), w. A covering for 
a table when it is not in use for meals, usually 
consisting of some ornamental fabric. 
, I- table-CUt (ta'bl-kut), M. and a. I. n. A form in 
, as one piece of Umber , ; , ; c . ious stoneSi especially the emerald 
otA anivmn nnd nroiei*- Ij? *; 
ne of the men 
or pieces used in such games as draughts, chess, 
or backgammon. 
A soft iKMly dampeth the sound. . . . And therefore In 
clerlcalls the keyes are lined ; and In colledges they use t 
!>_-,._ Vi Lilt,* K 1 KU 
line the tablemen. 
Bacon, Sat. Hist, ( 158. 
edge' of the stone cut with a single bevel or in PP> lr<;nt ***** 
a number of small triangular facets, or forming tablementt (ta'b -ment), n. [< UE.tablement, 
in some way a mere frame to the table. < OF. "Inblement (cf.V. entablement)^. LL tabu- 
lameiitum, a boarding, a flooring, < L. tabula, a 
board : see table. Cf. tablatiire.] A foundation- 
stone ; a base, as of a column ; a plinth ; a table, 
in the architectural sense. 
table-cutter (ta'bl-kut'er). H. A lapidary who 
cuts tables or plane faces on diamonds or other 
precious stones. 
A little later [than 1373] the so-called lable-eutten at 
N'nrnlHjrg, and all 
selves Into a guild. 
table d'hote 
The fonndementez twelue of riche tenoun ; 
Veh laMinfiit wats a serlypez (diverse) ston. 
AUitemtirt l'aemt(E. E. T. S.\ I 
ner, etc., a public meal of several courses, served at 
stated hour. In a hotel or a restaurant, at a filed price. 
as frontal, 5 (b). 
table-diamond (ta'bl-di'a-inopd), . A cut and table-money (ta'bl-mun'i), M. In the British 
faceted diamond whose flat upper surface is army and navy, an extra allowance to the higher 
large in proportion to the faceted sides, and officers for the expenses of official hospitality; 
also, in some clubs, a small charge to members 
for the use of the dining-room, as a provision 
for the cost of maintenance. 
Table-mountain pine. See;nei. 
+ -ful.'} As table-moving (ta'bl-m6'ving), w. 
or as many as can tablf-tipiiiinj. 
table-music (ta'bl-mu'zik), M. In early modern 
music, music composed and written so that it 
much as a table will hol< 
be seated round a table. 
One man who is a little too literal can spoil the talk of 
*,. c , F .v, . = ,.-.., -. - ,- which has the appearance of a slab or plate. 
picturesque presentation ; specifically, in Eng- table-flap (ta'bl-flap), . A leaf hinged to th 
lish use, a picturesque grouping of persons side or end of a table with a rule-joint, to be 
and objects, or of either alone; a living pic- raised or lowered as desired. , 
ture. 8ee tableau rivant, below. 2. In !'' ,/, tableful (ta'bl-ful), . < table + -/..] As table-moving (ta'bl-m6'ving), H. 
lam, a table or schedule; a showing; a list; a 
statement. 
The noble class in Russia . . . designates those who, 
belonging to the fourteen grades of the tchln, or official 
tableaux of rank, are exempt from certain degrading pen- 
-" Umm~ '. W/I.F i.vvvi ii . .-!,-.....--, 1 1 .KI , In some cases both performers used the same notes, re- 
garding them from their respective points of view ; in 
others the two parts were printed separately on a single 
page, but in opposite directions. Examples also occur 
of books arranged to be used simultaneously by four per- 
tlgnro. "so arranged as uTrepreseiit a scene of actual life. abstract "nature or essential quality ot a table, table-plane (ta'bl-plan), M. A furniture-mak- 
table-bit (t:i ' l>l-bit), . In ((;>., a sharp-edged See t j, e quotation under aobletity. [Rare.] ers' plane for making rule-joints in table-flaps 
bit, bent up at one side to give a taper point : personality . may be ranked among the old scholas- etc. The respective parts have rounds and hollows, and 
used to make holes for the wooden joints of ta- t ( c terms of corporeity, egoity, tableity, etc., or Is even yet the planes are made In pairs, counterparts of each other. 
more harsh. Locke, Personal Identity, App. to Defence. S. S. Knight. 
allies. Harper's May., LXXVI. 924. 
Tableau vlvant (commonly shortened to tableau), a llv- 
a whole tableful of men of esprit. 
O. W. Holme*, Autocrat, ill. 
Three large tablefuli of housekeeping things. 
Philadelphia Time, Jan. 9, 1886. 
form of 
The 
, 
may be performed by two persons seated on op- 
pos'ite sides of a table and using a single score. 
