Vocabulary : Tabler to Taboo
Tabler : One who boards. ;; One who boards others for hire.
Tables d'hote : of Table d'hote
Tablespoon : A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc.
Tablespoonful : As much as a tablespoon will hold; enough to fill a tablespoon. It is usually reckoned as one half of a fluid ounce, or four fluid drams.
Tablespoonfuls : of Tablespoonful
Tablet : A small table or flat surface. ;; A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture. ;; Hence, a small picture; a miniature. ;; A kind of pocket memorandum book. ;; A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague. ;; A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.
Tableware : Ware, or articles collectively, for table use.
Tabling : A forming into tables; a setting down in order. ;; The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding. ;; A broad hem on the edge of a sail. ;; Board; support. ;; Act of playing at tables. See Table, n., 10.
Tabloid : A compressed portion of one or more drugs or chemicals, or of food, etc. ;; Compressed or condensed, as into a tabloid; administrated in or as in tabloids, or small condensed bits; as, a tabloid form of imparting information.
Taboo : Set apart or sacred by religious custom among certain races of Polynesia, New Zealand, etc., and forbidden to certain persons or uses; hence, prohibited under severe penalties; interdicted; as, food, places, words, customs, etc., may be taboo. ;; A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction. ;; To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals.
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