Category:Table

Vernacular
Tagalog: mesa Spanish: mesa Indonesian: meja Portuguese: mesa

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.

2. To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture. [obs.] Tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation. Bacon.

3. To supply with food; to feed. [obs.] Milton.

4. (carp.)

Defn: to insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate Scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.

5. To lay or place on a table, as money. Carlyle.

6. In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a Formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion, or the like) till Called for, or indefinitely.

7. To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one.

8. (naut.)

Defn: to make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in Order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.

Table Ta"ble, v. i.

Defn: to live at the table of another; to board; to eat. [obs.] "he . . . was driven from the society of men to table with the beasts." South.