taborer, tabourer (taborer)

[OF. tabour eur, tabourer, drum: see tabor1, v.] A tabor player; one who beats the tabor. I would I could see this taborer . IMG:content-2746.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A seat for one person; especially, a seat without back or arms, or with a very low back, as an ottoman. The word is applied especially to such seats (sometimes ottomans) placed in the presence-chambers of the court who are entitled to sit in the presence of the sovereign. ber or reception-room a palace, for Our great-aunt said she had never recovered from her alarm at being perched by Mrs. Washington upon a cro stitch tabouret and bid to sing "Ye Dalian God" to the general. The Century , XXXVII. 843. 3. A frame for embroidery.-4. A needle-case. -Right of the taboret ( droit de tabouret ), a privilege, formerly enjoyed by ladies of the highest rank at the French court, of sitting on a taboret in the presence of the queen or the empre , corresponding to the droit de fauteuil enjoyed by gentlemen. taborine, tabourine (tab'ō-rin, tabʼö-rin), n. [Also taborin; Beat loud the tabourines , let the trumpets blow. 2. A common side-drum. IMG:content-2747.png:[blocks in formation] and Procopius, causing wide-spread devastation, till their final defeat in 1434. See Hu ite. tabour, tabourer, etc. See tabor1, etc. tabreret, n. Same as taborer. Spenser, Shep. Cal., May. tabret (tab'ret), n. [Contr. of taboret.] A small tabor; a tambourine or timbrel. A company of prophets,... with a psaltery, and a tab ret, and a pipe, and a harp. 1 Sam. x. 5. [Here, and in 1 Sam. xviii. 6, the revised version substitutes timbrel ; elsewhere tabret is retained.] tabu, a., n., and v. See taboo. tabula (tab'ū-lä), n.; pl. tabulæ (-lē). [NL., tabula , a board, plank, table: see table .] 1. In Rom. antiq ., a table or tablet; especially, a writing-tablet; hence, a writing or document; a legal instrument or record. Instruments or charters, public and private (styled by the Romans first leges, afterwards instrument a or tabulæ). Encyc. Brit ., XIII. 124. 2. In an at . and zoöl . , a table or tablet; a hard, flat, expansive surface, as of bone; specifically, in corals, a di epiment; one of the highly developed and usually transverse or horizontal partitions which cut the septa, when these are present, at right angles, forming a set of floorings or ceilings of certain cavities. Tabulæ are characteristic of some sclerodermatous corals (hence called Tabulata , or tabulate corals ), in which they extend acro the thecæ from side to side. 3. Eccles., same as frontal, 5 (b). - Tabula it in era ria, a common name in the middle ages for a portable altar. Such an altar was usually made of thin slabs of stone or slate, but one of oak covered with silver plate was found in the tomb of St. Cuthbert, laid upon the breast of the corpse.- Tabula ras a, an erased table or tablet - that is, a wax tablet from which the writing has been erased; hence, a blank surface, or one without inscription or impre ion: in philosophy used by the Lockians to expre their notion of the mind at birth, implying that the nature of the ideas which afterward arise are determined purely from the nature of the objects experienced, and depend in no degree upon the nature of the mind. This doctrine is now exploded.- Tabula vitrea. Same as vitreous table (which see, under table ). tabular (tab'u-lär), a. [= F. tabulaire, All the nodules ... except those that are tabular and Woodward, Fo ils. plated. 2. Of or pertaining to a table or tabulated form; of the nature of a list, schedule, or synopsis arranged in lines or columns. Also tabellary. 3. Ascertained from or computed by the use of tables: as, tabular right ascension.-Tabular bones, in an at., flat bones, such as the ilium, scapula, Tabular crystal, a crystal in which the prism is very short. - Tabular differences, in logarithmic tables of numbers, a column of numbers, consisting of the dif these numbers being the difference between the succesferences of the logarithms taken in succe ion, each of sive logarithms in the same line with it. - Tabular di epiment, method, result. See the nouns. Tabu lar scutellum, in entom., a scutellum considerably elevated, and flat above. - Tabular in mineral., same as wollastonite.-Tabular standard.' See standard2. Tabular structure, in geol., a separation, or a tendency to separate, into tabular ma es, plates, or slabs: properly used only with reference to crystalline and igneous rocks. Tabular structure resembles stratification in a general way, but the two kinds of structure differ greatly each other in the manner in which they have originated. Some English geologists, however, have used tabular structure and lamination as synonymous. See lamination. Tabular surface. See surface. - Tabular work, in printing, same as table - work. see table.] 1. Shaped like a table; forming a tablature; tabular.-2. Provided with tabulæ, as a coral: specifically applied to the Tabulata: as, a tabulate coral. The Tabulate Corals have existed from the Silurian epoch to the present day. Huxley , Lay Sermons, p. 220. tabulate (tab'u-lat), v. t .; pret. and pp. tabu lated , ppr. tabulating . [ tabula , a table, + -ate2 . Cf. table , v.] 1. To give a tabular or flat surface to; make or form as a table, or with tables. Many of the best diamonds are pointed with six angles, and some tabulated or plain, and square. N. Grew, Museum. The remarkable tabulated ma es of land in the neigh. borhood of Cape Alexander. A. W. Greely, Arctic Service, p. 62. 2. To put or form into a table or tables; collect or arrange in lines or columns; formulate tabularly: as, to tabulate statistics or a list of IMG:content-2748.png:[blocks in formation] The value of such a tabulation was immense at the time, and is even still very great. Whewell. A tabulation of the chronology of these mythical ages becomes a mere waste of labour. Brande and Cox , Dict. Sci., Lit., and Art, III. 691.