Tes`sel*la"tion (?), n. The act of tessellating; also, the mosaic work
so formed. J. Forsyth.
||Tes"se*ra (?), n.; pl. Tesseræ (#). [L., a square piece, a die. See
||Tessellar.] A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like,
||having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for
||mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like
||purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a
||ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful
||gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes. Fairholt.
||
Tes`se*ra"ic (?), a. Diversified by squares; done in mosaic;
tessellated. [Obs.] Sir R. Atkyns (1712).
Tes"se*ral (?), a. 1. Of, pertaining to, or containing, tesseræ.