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Tablet   /tˈæblət/   Listen
Tablet

noun
1.
A slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription.
2.
A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.  Synonyms: pad, pad of paper.
3.
A small flat compressed cake of some substance.
4.
A dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet.  Synonyms: lozenge, pill, tab.



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"Tablet" Quotes from Famous Books



... one day her picture—hers—would hang in solemn state here. The women who looked at her from these walls lay stark and stiff in the vaults beneath Chesholm Church, and sooner or later they would lay her stark and stiff with them, and put up a marble tablet recording her age and virtues. She shivered a little and drew a long breath of relief as they emerged into the bright outer day ...
— A Terrible Secret • May Agnes Fleming
... we, the present generation, be worthy of our ancestry, we shall not only protect those foundations from destruction, but build higher and wider this temple of liberty, and inscribe perpetuity upon its tablet. ...
— Speeches of the Honorable Jefferson Davis 1858 • Hon. Jefferson Davis
... lies the value of these three things about which you were contending, for to me they appear of very little worth." They replied, "Dear uncle, each of them has a property worth treasuries of wealth, and to each of them belongs a tale so wonderful, that wert thou to write it on a tablet of adamant it would remain an example for those ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments Complete • Anonymous
... his head slightly, and seemed about to refuse the lozenge. But a glance at his daughters' worried faces evidently made him change his mind. He slipped the tablet into his mouth, and then straightened up in his chair. Whatever happened to him he knew he must make a brave fight for the sake of the girls. It would not do to show the white feather before them, even though ...
— The Moving Picture Girls - First Appearances in Photo Dramas • Laura Lee Hope
... the French kings, the noble St. Cloud, is now the heritage and possession of this fine Austrian. And do you know what she has done? Close by the railing which separates the park from St. Cloud, and near the entrance, she has had a tablet put up, on which are written the conditions on which the public are allowed to ...
— Marie Antoinette And Her Son • Louise Muhlbach


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