A small table or
flat surface.
A flat piece of any material on which to write,
paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a
picture.
Hence, a small picture; a miniature.
A kind of pocket memorandum
book.
A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of
arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.
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.
