A circular plate or table of about five feet diameter weighs on an
average nine pounds.
Ure.
12. (Jewelry) The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious
stone, the sides of which are cut in angles.
13. (Persp.) A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and
perpendicular to the horizon; — called also perspective plane.
14. (Mach.) The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is
fastened.
Bench table, Card table, Communion table, Lord's table, etc. See under
Bench, Card, etc. — Raised table (Arch. & Sculp.), a raised or
projecting member of a flat surface, large in proportion to the
projection, and usually rectangular, — especially intended to receive
an inscription or the like. — Roller table (Horology), a flat disk on
the arbor of the balance of a watch, holding the jewel which rolls in
and out of the fork at the end of the lever of the escapement. — Round
table. See Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. — Table anvil, a small
anvil to be fastened to a table for use in making slight repairs. —
Table base. (Arch.) Same as Water table. — Table bed, a bed in the form
of a table. — Table beer, beer for table, or for common use; small
beer. — Table bell, a small bell to be used at table for calling
servants. — Table cover, a cloth for covering a table, especially at
other than mealtimes. — Table diamond, a thin diamond cut with a flat
upper surface. — Table linen, linen tablecloth, napkins, and the like.
— Table money (Mil. or Naut.), an allowance sometimes made to officers
over and above their pay, for table expenses. — Table rent (O. Eng.
Law), rent paid to a bishop or religious, reserved or appropriated to
his table or housekeeping. Burrill. — Table shore (Naut.), a low, level
shore. — Table talk, conversation at table, or at meals. — Table
talker, one who talks at table. — Table tipping, Table turning, certain
movements of tables, etc., attributed by some to the agency of departed
spirits, and by others to the development of latent vital or spriritual
forces, but more commonly ascribed to the muscular force of persons in
connection with the objects moved, or to physical force applied
otherwise. — Tables of a girder or chord (Engin.), the upper and lower
horizontal members. — To lay on the table, in parliamentary usage, to
lay, as a report, motion, etc., on the table of the presiding officer,
— that is, to postpone the consideration of, by a vote. — To serve
tables (Script.), to provide for the poor, or to distribute provisions
for their wants. Acts vi. 2. — To turn the tables, to change the
condition or fortune of contending parties; — a metaphorical expression
taken from the vicissitudes of fortune in gaming. — Twelve tables (Rom.
Antiq.), a celebrated body of Roman laws, framed by decemvirs appointed
450 years before Christ, on the return of deputies or commissioners who
had been sent to Greece to examine into foreign laws and institutions.
They consisted partly of laws transcribed from the institutions of
other nations, partly of such as were altered and accommodated to the
manners of the Romans, partly of new provisions, and mainly, perhaps,
of laws and usages under their ancient kings. Burrill.
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Ta"ble (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tableed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tableing
(?).] 1. To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table
fines.