table (2 chiefly, and 3 only, in fig. context)
1.
one
or both of the stone tablets containing the ten
commandments
Meas. I. ii. 9
“scraped one”
[commandment] “out of
the ,”
R3 I. iv. 205
“in the table of his
law”
(Ff “Table”).
2.
writing tablet,
memorandum book (cf. TABLEBOOK)
Gent. II. vii. 3
“thee, Who art the wherein
all my thoughts Are . . .
character'd,”
Ham. I. v. 98
“from the of my
memory”
; esp. pl.
2H4 II. iv. 289
“his master's old t-s, .
. . his counsel-keeper,”
IV. i. 201,
Troil. IV. v. 60
“unclasp the t-s of
their thoughts,”
Ham. I. v. 107,
Cym. III. ii. 39
“young Cupid's
t-s”
(=love-letters), Sonn. cxxii.
1, 12
3.
board or flat surface
on which a picture is painted
All'sW. I. i. 107
“draw His arched brows .
. . In our heart's ,”
John II. i. 503
“Drawn in the flattering
table of her eye,”
Sonn. xxiv. 2.
4.
(in palmistry)
quadrangle formed by four main lines in the palm of
the hand Mer.V. II. i.
174.
