4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tablet  \Ta"blet\,  n.  [F.  tablette  dim.  of  table.  See  {Table}.] 
  1.  A  small  table  or  flat  surface. 
 
  2.  A  flat  piece  of  any  material  on  which  to  write,  paint, 
  draw,  or  engrave;  also  such  a  piece  containing  an 
  inscription  or  a  picture. 
 
  3.  Hence  a  small  picture;  a  miniature.  [Obs.] 
 
  4.  pl  A  kind  of  pocket  memorandum  book. 
 
  5.  A  flattish  cake  or  piece;  as  tablets  of  arsenic  were 
  formerly  worn  as  a  preservative  against  the  plague. 
 
  6.  (Pharm.)  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 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  tablet 
  n  1:  a  slab  of  stone  or  wood  suitable  for  bearing  an  inscription 
  2:  a  number  of  sheets  of  paper  fastened  together  along  one  edge 
  [syn:  {pad},  {pad  of  paper}] 
  3:  a  dose  of  medicine  in  the  form  of  a  small  pellet  [syn:  {pill}, 
  {lozenge}] 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  TABLET 
 
  A  {query  language}. 
 
  ["Human  Factor  Comparison  of  a  Procedural  and  a  Non-procedural 
  Query  Language",  C.  Welty  et  al  ACM  Trans  Database  Sys 
  6(4):626-649  (Dec  1981)]. 
 
  (1994-11-23) 
 
 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Tablet 
  probably  a  string  of  beads  worn  round  the  neck  (Ex.  35:22;  Num. 
  31:50).  In  Isa.  3:20  the  Hebrew  word  means  a  perfume-box,  as  it 
  is  rendered  in  the  Revised  Version. 
 

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