n. A flat or flattish and relatively thin piece of wood, stone, metal, or other hard substance; a board; a plate; a slab.n. Specifically— A slab, plate, or panel of some solid material with one surface (rarely both surfaces) smooth or polished for some purpose, used either separately or as part of a structural combination. This sense is now chiefly obsolete, except in some historical or special cases: as, the tables of the law; the table (mensa) of an altar. A board or panel on which a picture was painted was formerly called a table, and also a board on which a game, as draughts or checkers, was played; the two leaves of a backgammon-board are called tables—the outer and inner (or home) tables. See def. 7 .n. A votive tablet.n. In anatomy, one of the two laminæ (outer and inner) of any of the cranial bones, separated from each other, except in the thinnest parts, by the spongy or cellular diploe. They are composed of compact bony tissue; the inner table is close-grained, shiny, and brittle (whence it is called the vitrcous table). Also called tablet. See tablature, 5.n. In glass-making: One of the disks or circular plates into which crown-glass is formed from the molten metal by blowing, rolling, and flashing. The plates are usually about four and a half feet in diameter, though sometimes much larger.n. The flat plate with a raised rim on which plate-glass is formed.n. In mech., that part of a machine-tool on which work is placed to be operated upon. It is adjustable in height, is free to move laterally or otherwise, and is perforated with slots for the clamps which secure the article to be treated. Also called carriage and platen.n. In weaving, the board or bar in a draw-loom to which the tails of the harness are attached.n. An article of furniture consisting of a flat top (the table proper), of wood, stone, or other solid material, resting on legs or on a pillar, with or without connecting framework; in specific use, a piece of furniture with a flat top on which meals are served, articles of use or ornament are placed, or some occupation is carried on: as, a dining-table, writing-table, work-table, kitchen-table; a billiard-table a tailors' cutting-table; a surgeons' operating-table.n. Used absolutely, the board at or round which persons sit at meals; a table for refection or entertainment: as, to set the table (to place the cloth and dishes on it for a meal); to sit long at table.n. Figuratively— That which is placed upon a table for refreshment; provision of food at meals; refection; fare; also, entertainment at table.n. A company at table, as at a dinner; a group of persons gathered round a table, as for whist or other games.n. In a limited use, a body of persons sitting, or regarded as sitting, round a table in some official capacity; an official board.n. A thin plate or sheet of wood, ivory, or other material for writing on; a tablet; in the plural, a memorandum-book.n. A flat or plane surface like that of a table; a level area; a plateau.n. Specifically— A level plot of ground; a garden-bed, or the like.n. In perspective, same as perspective plane. See perspective, n.n. In architecture: A flat surface forming a distinct feature in a wall, generally rectangular and charged with some ornamental design or figure. When it projects beyond the general surface of the wall, it is termed a raised or projecting table; when it is not perpendicular to the horizon, it is called a raking table; and when the surface is rough, frosted, or vermiculated, it is called a rusticated table.n. A horizontal molding on the exterior or interior face of a wall, placed at various levels, which crowns basements, separates the stories of a building, or its upper parts; a string-course.n. In palmistry, the inner surface of the hand; especially, the space within certain lines of the palm, considered in relation to indications of character or fortune.n. In diamond-cutting: A stone (usually a cleavage-piece) that is polished flat on both sides, is either square, oblong, triangular, round, or oval in form, and has a border of one or more rows of square or triangular facets.n. The large flat facet on the top of a brilliant-cut stone. See brilliant (with cut).n. Something inscribed, depicted, or performed on a table, or arranged on a tabular surface or in tabular form: as, the two tables of the law (the decalogue).n. plural The game of backgammon. See def. 1 .n. Hence An arrangement of written words, numbers, or signs, or of combinations of them, in a series of separate lines or columns; a formation of details in relation to any subject arranged in horizontal, perpendicular, or some other definite order, in such manner that the several particulars are distinctly exhibited to the eye, each by itself: as, chronological tables; astronomical tables; tables of weights or measures; the multiplication table; insurance tables.n. A synoptical statement or series of statements; a concise presentation of the details of a subject; a list of items or particulars.n. A doctrine or tenet, especially one regarded as of divine origin or authority.n. Milit., in some shells, as the shrapnel, the contracted part of the eye next the interior, as distinct from the larger part next the exterior.n. Eccles., same as frontal, 5 .n. A body of knights fabled to have been brought together by King Arthur Pendragon to defend Christian England and Wales against the heathen Saxony. This legendary order of Knights of the Round Table was imitated in later times by associations of participants in justs or tournaments.n. The first stone at the side of a gable, serving as an abutment for the coping. Also called summer-stone and skew-corbel.n. By metonymy, the Lord's Supper, or communion, itself.Pertaining to or provided for a table: as, table requisites.Shaped like a table.To form into a list or catalogue; tabulate; catalogue.To make a table or picture of; delineate; depict.To entertain at table; board.To lay upon a table; pay down.To lay on the table, in the parliamentary sense; lay aside for future consideration or till called up again: as, to table a resolution.In carpentry, to fix or set, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate seams and projections on each, to prevent the pieces from drawing apart or slipping upon one another.Nautical, to strengthen, as a sail, by making broad hems on the head-leeches and the foot, for the attachment of the bolt-rope.To eat or live at the table of another; board.To play the game of tables.