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TA'BID, aclj, [t abide, Fr.; tab ulus, Lat.] Wasted by 
disease; consumptive.—In tabid persons milk is the best 
restorative, being chyle already prepared. Arbuthnot. 
TA'BIDNESS, s. Consumptiveness; state of being wasted 
by disease. 
TABIO, a settlement of New Granada, in South America, 
which contains 400 families, Spaniards and Indians; 15 
miles north-west of Santa Fe. 
TABLACHUCCA, a river of Peru, in the province of 
Conchucos, which enters the Santa. 
TABLADA, a settlement of New Granada, in the province 
of Santa Martha, on the shore of the river Magdalena, on an 
island formed by the arm of this river. 
TABLAS, the name of several inconsiderable settlements 
in South America. 
TABLAS, one of the Philippine islands, which lies due 
south of Lucon. It is of a very irregular shape; about 30 
miles long, by 3 in average breadth. 
TA'BLATURE, s. A way of expressing musical sounds 
by letters or cyphers; a piece of music for the lute. 
What means this stately tablature. 
The balance of thy strains ? 
Which seems instead of sifting pure, 
To extend and rack thy veins: 
Thy odes first their own harmony did break, 
For singing troth is but in tune to speak. Lovelace. 
In Anatomy, a division or parting of the skull into two 
tables, but in painting, we may give to any particular work 
the name of tablature, when the work is in reality a single 
piece, comprehended in one view, and formed according to 
one single intelligence, meaning, or design. Ld. Shaftes¬ 
bury. 
TA'BLE, s. [tabula, Lat.] Any flat or level surface.— 
Upon the castle hill there is a bagnio paved with fair tables 
of marble. Sandys. —A horizontal surface raised above the 
ground, used for meals and other purposes. 
We may again 
Give to our tables meat, sleep to our nights. Shalcspeare. 
The persons sitting at table, or partaking of entertain¬ 
ment. 
Give me some wine, fill full, 
I drink to th’ general joy of the whole table. Shalcspeare. 
The fare or entertainment itself: as, he keeps a good table. 
—When a man keeps a constant table, he may be allowed 
sometimes to serve up a cold dish of meat. Tatler. —A 
tablet; a surface on which any thing is written or engraved. 
’Twas pretty, though a plague, 
To see him every hour; to sit and draw 
His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls, 
In our heart’s table. Shalcspeare. 
[Tableau, Fr.] A picture, or any thing that exhibits a 
view of any thing upon a flat surface. 
I never lov’d myself. 
Till now, infixed, I beheld myself 
Drawn in the flattering table of her eye. Shalcspeare. 
A synopsis: many particulars brought into one view. 
I have no images of ancestors, 
Wanting an ear, or nose, no forged tables 
Of long descents, to boast false honours from. B. Jonson. 
The palm of the hand. 
Mistress of a fairer table 
Hath not history nor fable. B. Jonson. 
Draughts; small pieces of wood shifted on squares. [Ta¬ 
ble, old French ; which Roquefort explains by “ jeu de tric¬ 
trac et des echecs.” So also the Saxon tseplan, tesseris 
sive alea ludere.] 
Monsieur the nice, 
When he play at tables chides the dice. Shalcspeare. 
To turn the Tables. To change the condition or for¬ 
tune of two contending parties: a metaphor taken from the 
vicissitude of fortune at gaming tables.—If it be thus, the 
tables would be turned upon me; but I should only fail in 
my vain attempt. Dryden. 
To TA'BLE, v. n. To board ; to live at the table of 
another.—He lost his kingdom, was driven from the society 
of men to table with the beasts, and to graze with oxen. 
South. 
To TA'BLE, v. a. To make into a catalogue; to set 
down.—I could have looked on him without admiration, 
though the catalogue of his endowments had been tabled by 
his side, and I to peruse him by items. Shalcspeare. —To 
represent as in painting.—I entreat you much to meditate 
sometimes upon the effect of superstition in this last powder- 
treason, fit to be tabled and pictured in the chambers of 
meditation as another hell above the ground. Bacon. —To 
supply with a table or food.—When he himself tabled the 
Jews from heaven, that omer, which was every man’s daily 
portion of manna, is computed to have been more than 
might have well sufficed the heartiest feeder thrice as many 
meals. Milton. 
TABLE BAY, a bay on the east coast of Labrador. Lat. 
53. 44. N. long. 20. 57. W.— Table Cape, a cape on the 
east coast of New Zealand. Lat. 39. 8. N. long. 181. 36. W. 
—Table Cape, a steep rocky point of land on the north 
coast of Van Diemen’s Land. —Table Island, a small flat 
island of the Eastern seas in Gaspar’s strait.— Table Is¬ 
land, a small island in the south Pacific ocean, so called by 
Captain Wilson. Lat. 18. 54. S. long. 181. 54. W.— Table 
Island, a small island near the coast of Spitzbergen. Lat. 
80. 57. N. long. 20. 30. E. 2d. One of the New Hebrides 
in the South Pacific ocean. Lat. 15. 38. S. long. 167. 7. E. 
3d. A small island in the Eastern seas, near the island of 
Paraguay. Lat. 9. 15. N. long. 118. 2. E. 4th. A small 
island in the Eastern seas. Lat. 14. 8. N. long. 93. 32. E.— 
Table Mountain, a mountain of Ireland, in the county 
of Wicklow; 15 miles west of Wicklow.— Table Moun¬ 
tain. See Cape of Good Hope.—Table Mountain, a 
mountain of the United States, in Pendleton district. South 
Carolina, near the north-west border of the state, 3168 feet 
higher than the surrounding country, and about 4000 above 
the level of the sea. It presents on one side a tremendous pre¬ 
cipice of solid rock, about 900 feet nearly perpendicular.— 
Table Mountains, mountains of the United States, in North 
Carolina. Lat. 36. N. long. 81. 40. W.— Table Point, a 
cape on the south coast of the island of Bali. Lat. 8. 45. S. 
long. 115. 11. E.— Table Point, the southern extremity of 
Bali island, in the Eastern seas, and the eastern boundary of 
the south entrance into Bali straits. Lat. 8. 50. S. long. 114. 
25. E. —Table River, a river of the United States in Loui¬ 
siana, which runs into the Mississippi. Lat. 37. 12. N. 
long. 90. 11. W.— Table Rock, a post village of the 
United States, in Pendleton district, South Carolina. 
TA'BLEBED, s. A bed of the figure of a table. 
TA'BLEBEER, s. Beer used at the victuals ; small beer. 
TA'BLEBOOK, s. A book on which any thing is graved 
or written without ink. 
What might you think, 
If I had play’d the desk or table-book ? Shalcspeare. 
TA'BLECLOTH, s. Linen spread on a table.—I will 
end with Odo holding master doctor’s mule, and Anne with 
her tablecloth. Camden. 
TA'BLELAND, s. Land far elevated upon the level of 
the sea, but level on its summit for a great extent. 
TABLEHURST, a small village of England, in Sussex, 
between East Grinstead and Ashdown Forest. 
TA'BLEMAN, s. A man at draughts—In clericals the 
keys are lined, and in colleges they use to line the tablemen. 
Bacon. 
TA'BLER, s. One who boards. Ainsworth. 
TA'BLETALK, s. Conversation at meals or entertain¬ 
ments; table discourse. 
Let me praise you while I have a stomach. 
—No, let it serve for tab/eta/lc. Shakspeare. 
TA'BLET, s. A small level surface. A medicine in a 
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