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square form.—It hath been anciently in use to wear tablets 
of arsenic, or preservatives, against the plague; as they draw 
the venom to them from the spirits. Bacon .—A surface 
written on or painted.—It was by the authority of Alexan¬ 
der, that through all Greece the young gentlemen learned, 
before all other things, to design upon tablets of boxen 
wood. Dry den. 
TABLEY, Nether and Over, two villages of Eng¬ 
land, in Cheshire ; 2 miles from Nether Knutsford. 
TABO, or Little Dieppe, a river and populous sea¬ 
port on the Grain coast of Africa. 
TABO-DUNE, a sea-port on the Ivory coast of Africa, 
known by a large green cape near it. About 10 leagues to 
the east is another sea-port, called also Tabo. 
TABOGA. SeeTABAGO. 
TABOLEOO, a river of Chili, which runs east, and turn¬ 
ing its course to the north-north-east, enters the Biobio. 
TABOR, a circle in the south-east of Bohemia, bounded 
on the north by the circle of Czaslau, on the east by Moravia, 
and on the south and west by the circle of Budweis. Its ex - 
tent is 1270 square miles ; its population nearly 160,000. 
Its soil is fertile, and adapted both to tillage and pasturage. 
Here are manufactures of woollen, cotton, and linen; and the 
higher grounds contain productive mines. Bohemian is the 
only language spoken in this circle. 
TABOR, a town of Bohemia, and the capital of a circle, is 
situated on a hill, on the river Luschnitz; 88 miles west-by¬ 
north of Brunn, and 49 south-by-east of Prague. It is forti¬ 
fied, and naturally strong; but has been frequently taken. 
It contains 3800 inhabitants, whose principal occupation is 
weaving. This town was built by Zisca, the Hussite general, 
and fortified in the modern style, which has given rise to a 
notion in Germany, that Zisca was the inventor of that 
method of fortifying places. The Hussites called it Hradis- 
tie Hory Tabor, or the Camp of Mount Tabor; and as it 
was their capital, one of the sects took from it the name of 
Taborites. Lat. 49. 24. 23. N. long. 14. 28. 0. E. 
TABOR, a large mountain of Palestine, situated to the 
south-west of the lake of Tiberias, over which it commands a 
most extensive prospect. It is of a conical form, and con¬ 
tains on its summit a plain of great extent, and highly culti¬ 
vated. It is celebrated in scripture as the mount of transfi¬ 
guration. 
TABORITES, or Thaborites, in Ecclesiastical History 
a branch or sect of the ancient Hussites. 
The Hussites, towards the beginning of the 15th century, 
dividing into several parties, and about the year 1420, into 
two great factions; one of them retired to a little mountain 
or rock, situate in Bohemia, 15 leagues from Prague, and 
there put themselves under the conduct of Ziska; building 
themselves a fort or castle, and a regular city, which they 
called Tabor or Thabor, either from the general word 
thabor, which in the Sclavonic language signifies castle ; 
or from the mountain Tabor, mentioned in Scripture; and 
hence they became denominated Thaborites. Those of the 
other party were denominated Calixtins. 
TA'BOUR, s. [tabourin, tabour, old French.] A small 
drum; a drum beaten with one stick to accompany a pipe.— 
If you did but hear the pedlar at door, you would never 
dance again after a tabour and pipe. Shahspcare. 
The shepherd knows not thunder from a tabour. 
More than I know the sound of Marcius’ tongue 
From every meaner man. Shahspearc. 
To TA'BOUR, v. n. [tabourer, old French.] To drum. 
£They] tabouren in your earis many a soun 
Right after their imaginacioun. Chaucer. 
To strike; to smite; to beat.—And her maids shall lead 
her as with the voice of doves, tabouring upon their breasts. 
Nahum. 
TA'BOURER, s. One who beats the tabour.—Would 
I could see this labourer. Shakspeare. 
TA'BOURET, s. A small tabour.—They shall depart 
the manor before him with trumpets, tabourets, and other 
minstrelsy Spectator 
T A C , 
TA'BOURINE, s. A tabour; a small drum. 
Trumpeters, 
With brazen din blast you the city’s ear, 
Make mingle with our rattling tabourines. 
That heaven and earth may strike their sounds together, 
Applauding our approach. Shahspearc. 
TABRE'RE, s. Tabourer. Obsolete. 
I saw a shole of shepherds outgo, 
Before them rode a lusty tabrere, 
That to the meynie a hornpipe plaid. 
Whereto they dauncen. Spenser. 
TA'BRET, s. A tabour.—Wherefore didst thou steal 
away, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with 
tabret ?■ Genesis. 
TABUE, a village of Lower Egypt, on the Nile; 12 miles 
north-west of Cairo. 
TA'BULAR, adj. [tab ularis, Lat.] Set down in the 
form of tables or synopses. Formed in laminae.—All the 
nodules that consist of one uniform substance were formed 
from a point, as the crusted ones, nay, and most of the 
spotted ones, and indeed all whatever, except those that are 
tabular and plated. Woodward. —Set in squares. 
To TA'BULATE, ». a. [tabula, Lat.] To reduce to 
tables or synopses.—His [Maittaire’s] book of the dialects is 
a sad heap of confusion : the only way to write on them is 
to tabulate them with notes, added at the bottom of the 
page, and references. Dr. Johnson. —To shape with a flat 
surface. 
TA'BULATED, adj. [tabula, Lat.] Having a flat sur¬ 
face.—Many of the best diamonds are pointed with six 
angles, and some tabulated or plain, and square. Grew. 
TACALALPO, a settlement of Mexico, in the province 
of Tabasco ; 23 miles south-west of Tabasco. 
TACALAYO, a settlement of South America, in the pro¬ 
vince of Chaco ; 35 miles north of St. Salvador de Jugui. 
TACALAZALUMA, a settlement of New Granada, in 
the province of Carthagena, on the shore of a lake formed 
by the arms of the river Cauca to the east. 
TACALOA, a settlement of New Granada, in the pro¬ 
vince of Carthagena, on the shore of the river Cauca; 85 
miles south-east of Carthagena. 
TACAMBARO, a settlement of Mexico, in the inten¬ 
dancy of Valladolid ; 32 leagues south-east of Valladolid. 
TACAMES, or Atacames, a province of Peru, bound¬ 
ed north by the province of Arica, north-east by Lipes, east 
and south-east by the territory of Salta, south by Chili, and 
west by the Pacific Ocean. It is divided into high and low. 
The first is of a cold temperature, abounding in the produc¬ 
tions of the mountainous districts. The ostriches and the 
vicuunas are found here in abuudance : there are some mines 
of gold and silver in this province; but they are not regu¬ 
larly worked. The desert of this province is a large un¬ 
peopled track, dividing the kingdoms of Peru and Chili. 
TACAMES, a sea-port town of South America, and 
capital of a jurisdiction in the audience of Quito, situated 
in a bay of the Pacific Ocean, to which it gives name; 110 
miles north-west of Quito. Lat. 0. 52. N. long. 62. W. 
TACAMOCIIO, a settlement of New Granada, in the 
province of Carthagena, on the Magdalena, near where it 
is entered by the Cauca. 
TACARIGUA. See Valencia. 
TACARIGUA, a large lake of South America, in the 
province and government of Venezuela. 
TACARIGUA, a settlement of the island of Trinidad, 
in the north point, and nearly at the east extremity. 
TACATU, a river of Guiana, which rises from Lake Pa- 
rima, on the west, and united with the river Maho, forms 
that which they call the Blanco, which afterwards enters 
the Amazons. 
TACAXI, a small island of Ximo, in Japan, at the en¬ 
trance of the gulf of Ximabari. 
TACAZZE, a great river of Abyssinia, which appears 
to be the Astaboras of Ptolemy. It rises among the moun¬ 
tains of Lasta, after which it passes along the eastern frontier 
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