bishop or religious, reserved or appropriated to his table or housekeeping. Burrill. — Table shore
(Naut.), a low, level shore. — Table talk, conversation at table, or at meals. — Table talker, one
who talks at table. — Table tipping, Table turning, certain movements of tables, etc., attributed
by some to the agency of departed spirits, and by others to the development of latent vital or spriritual
forces, but more commonly ascribed to the muscular force of persons in connection with the objects
moved, or to physical force applied otherwise. — Tables of a girder or chord (Engin.), the upper
and lower horizontal members. — To lay on the table, in parliamentary usage, to lay, as a report,
motion, etc., on the table of the presiding officer, — that is, to postpone the consideration of, by a vote.
— To serve tables (Script.), to provide for the poor, or to distribute provisions for their wants. Acts
vi. 2. — To turn the tables, to change the condition or fortune of contending parties; — a metaphorical
expression taken from the vicissitudes of fortune in gaming. — Twelve tables (Rom. Antiq.), a celebrated
body of Roman laws, framed by decemvirs appointed 450 years before Christ, on the return of deputies
or commissioners who had been sent to Greece to examine into foreign laws and institutions. They
consisted partly of laws transcribed from the institutions of other nations, partly of such as were altered
and accommodated to the manners of the Romans, partly of new provisions, and mainly, perhaps, of
laws and usages under their ancient kings. Burrill.
Table
(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.) 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.) 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. 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.
Tableau
(||Ta`bleau") n.; pl. Tableaux [F., dim. fr. L. tabula a painting. See Table.]
1. A striking and vivid representation; a picture.
2. A representation of some scene by means of persons grouped in the proper manner, placed in appropriate
postures, and remaining silent and motionless.
Tableau vivant
(||Ta`bleau" vi`vant") ; pl. Tableaux vivants [F.] Same as Tableau, n., 2.
