table leaf (tabllef)

1. A board at the side or end of a table, hinged so as to be let down when not in use; a table-flap.-2. One of the movable boards forming the top of an extension-table. - Table-leaf joint, a form of joint used for the leaves of desks and tables, for rules, for some kinds of shutter, etc. It has a molded edge forming a quarter-round, the two parts being respectively convex and concave, and moving on each other in the manner of a knuckle-joint. Also called rule - joint. E. H. Knight. table-lifting (ta'bl-lifting), n. The act of causing a table to rise by laying the tips of the fingers or the palms of the hands upon its upper surface, as in table-tipping. He would have really "exploded the whole nonsense" of table - lifting . Proc. Soc. Psych. Research, I. 248. table-line (tā'bl-lin), n. In palmistry , the principal boundary-line of the table of the hand. See table , 6 ( d ). When the table - line is crooked, and falls between the middle and fore finger, it signifies effusion of blood, as I said before. Sanders , Chiromancy, p. 75. ( Hall i well .) table-linen (tā'bl-lin"en), n. Pieces of cloth, commonly of linen damask, used in the service of the table. See table - cloth , napkin . tablemant (tā'bl-man), n . 1. One of the men or pieces used in such games as draughts, che , or backgammon. A soft body dampeth the sound. And therefore in cleric alls the keyes are lined; and in coll edges they use to line the table men . Bacon , Nat. Hist., § 158. 2. A player at one of these games; a dicer; a gamester: in the quotation said to mean 'gaily appareled servants waiting at table.' All the painted table men about you take you to be heirs apparent to rich Midas. Dekker, Gull's Hornbook, Int. tablementt (ta'bl-ment), п . [ table ment , table ment (cf. F. entablement ), tabu lamentum , a boarding, a flooring, tabula , a board: see table . Cf. tablature .] A foundation stone; a base, as of a column; a plinth; a table, in the architectural sense. The foundementez twelue of riche tenoun; Vch tabelment watz a serlypez [diverse] ston. Alliterative Poems (E. E. T. S.), i. 993. We sat us down upon the tablements on the south side of the Temple. Holland, tr. of Plutarch, p. 973.