"tablet" Definition

Definitions for the word "tablet" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
A small table or flat surface.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
Hence, a small picture; a miniature.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A kind of pocket memorandum book.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
1 small solid dose of a medicine etc. 2 bar of soap etc. 3 flat slab of esp. Stone, usu. Inscribed. 4 us writing-pad. [latin diminutive: related to *table]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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