table sport (tablsport)

An object of amusement at table; the butt of a table. [Rare.] If I find not what I seek, show no colour for my extremity; let me for ever be your table -sport. Shak., M. W. of W., iv. 2. 169. 6150 3. One of a set of lam inæ, leaves, or sheets of some thin inflexible material for writing; in the plural, the set as a whole. Ancient tablets consisted of smooth plates of beech or other wood, or of ivory or the like, covered with a thin layer of wax, protected by raised edges, hinged together by wire, and written upon with a style. They were used for correspondence, асcounts, legal documents, etc. In modern times tablets of ivory or similar material, pivoted together at one end and carried in the pocket, are much used for penciled memoranda. Demaratus took a pair of tablets , and, clearing the wax away from them, wrote what the king was purposing to do upon the wood whereof the tablets were made; having done this, he spread the wax once more over the writing, and so sent it. Hero dot us, History (tr. by Rawlinson, IV. 187). 4. A small flat or flattish cake of some solidified substance: as, a tablet of chocolate or of bouillon. Sometimes written tablette. It hath been anciently received.. and it is yet in use tablets of arsenick as preservatives against Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 970. to wear. the plague. Some tablet tes of grated cocoa candied in liquid sugar. Harper's Mag., LXXX. 230. 5. In med., a certain weight or measure of a solid drug, brought by pre ure, or the addition of a little gum, into a shape (generally that of a disk) convenient for administration: as, charcoal tablets; compre ed tablets of chlorate of pota a.-6. The final member in a wall, consisting of slabs of cut stone projecting slightly beyond the face of the wall for its protection or shelter; a horizontal capping or coping, as the border course of a reservoir. The crowning tablet or fillet [of an Egyptian pylon or portico] is quite plain and unornamented. Encyc. Brit., II. 390. taboo tablewise (ta'bl-wiz), adv. In the manner of a table. In the period of the Reformation in England this word was used to signify 'with the ends east and west,' said of the Lord's table when so placed in the body of the church or chancel. Opposed to altarwise.