3. Of or pertaining to huts or booths; hence, common; low. "Horribly
tabernacular." De Quincey.
||Ta"bes (t"bz), n. [L., a wasting disease.] (Med.) Progressive
||emaciation of the body, accompanied with hectic fever, with no
||well-marked local symptoms.
||
||Tabes dorsalis (dôr*s"ls) [NL., tabes of the back], locomotor ataxia;
||— sometimes called simply tabes. — ||Tabes mesenterica (&?;) [NL.,
||mesenteric tabes], a wasting disease of childhood characterized by
||chronic inflammation of the lymphatic glands of the mesentery,
||attended with caseous degeneration.
||
Ta*bes"cent (?), a. [L. tabescens wasting, p. pr. of tabescere.]
Withering, or wasting away.
Ta*bet"ic (?), a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to tabes; of the nature of
tabes; affected with tabes; tabid. — n. One affected with tabes.
Tab"id (?), a. [L. tabidus: cf. F. tabide. See Tabes.] (Med.) Affected
by tabes; tabetic.
In tabid persons, milk is the bset restorative.
Arbuthnot.
— Tab"id*ly, adv. — Tab"id*ness, n.
{ Ta*bif"ic (?), Ta*bif"ic*al (?), } a. [Tabes + L. facere to make.]
(Med.) Producing tabes; wasting; tabefying.
Tab"inet (?), n. See Tabbinet. Thackeray.
Tab"la*ture (?), n. [Cf. F. tablature ancient mode of musical notation.
See Table.] 1. (Paint.) A painting on a wall or ceiling; a single piece
comprehended in one view, and formed according to one design; hence, a
picture in general. Shaftesbury.
2. (Mus.) An ancient mode of indicating musical sounds by letters and
other signs instead of by notes.
The chimes of bells are so rarely managed that I went up to that of Sir
Nicholas, where I found who played all sorts of compositions from the
tablature before him as if he had fingered an organ.
Evelyn.
3. (Anat.) Division into plates or tables with intervening spaces; as,
the tablature of the cranial bones.
Ta"ble (?), n. [F., fr. L. tabula a board, tablet, a painting. Cf.
Tabular, Taffrail, Tavern.] 1. A smooth, flat surface, like the side of
a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.
A bagnio paved with fair tables of marble.
Sandys.
2. A thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal, or other material, on
which anything is cut, traced, written, or painted; a tablet; pl. a
memorandum book. "The names . . . written on his tables." Chaucer.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto
the first, and I will write upon these tables the words that were in
the first tables, which thou brakest.
Ex. xxxiv. 1.
And stand there with your tables to glean The golden sentences.
Beau. & Fl.
3. Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a drawing, or
the like, may be produced. "Painted in a table plain." Spenser.
The opposite walls are painted by Rubens, which, with that other of the
Infanta taking leave of Don Philip, is a most incomparable table.
Evelyn.
St. Antony has a table that hangs up to him from a poor peasant.
Addison.
4. Hence, in a great variety of applications: A condensed statement
which may be comprehended by the eye in a single view; a methodical or
systematic synopsis; the presentation of many items or particulars in
one group; a scheme; a schedule. Specifically: —
(a) (Bibliog.) A view of the contents of a work; a statement of the
principal topics discussed; an index; a syllabus; a synopsis; as, a
table of contents.
(b) (Chem.) A list of substances and their properties; especially, a
list of the elementary substances with their atomic weights, densities,
symbols, etc.
(c) (Mach.) Any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many
particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures,
currency, specific gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following
some law, and expressing particular values corresponding to certain
other numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are
taken out for use in computations; as, tables of logarithms, sines,
tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity tables; interest tables;
astronomical tables, etc.
(d) (Palmistry) The arrangement or disposition of the lines which
appear on the inside of the hand.
Mistress of a fairer table Hath not history for fable.
B. Jonson.
5. An article of furniture, consisting of a flat slab, board, or the
like, having a smooth surface, fixed horizontally on legs, and used for
a great variety of purposes, as in eating, writing, or working.
We may again Give to our tables meat.
Shak.
The nymph the table spread.
Pope.
6. Hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of; fare;
entertainment; as, to set a good table.