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