(n.) Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a drawing or the like, may be produced.
(n.) A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.
(n.) Hence, in a great variety of applications: A condensed statement which may be comprehended by the eye in a single view; a methodical or systematic synopsis; the presentation of many items or particulars in one group; a scheme; a schedule.
(n.) The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles.
(v.t.) In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion or the like) till called for or indefinitely.
(n.) Any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures, currency, specific gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following some law, and expressing particular values corresponding to certain other numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are taken out for use in computations; as, tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity tables; interest tables; astronomical tables, etc.