tablet

Definitions

1. 1.A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.
2. 2.Hence, a small picture; a miniature. [Obs.]
3. 3.pl. A kind of pocket memorandum book.
4. 4.A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.
5. 5.(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.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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