{Inking roller}, a somewhat elastic roller,used to spread ink
over forms of type, copperplates, etc.
{Inking trough} or {table}, a trough or table from which the
inking roller receives its ink.
A bagnio paved with fair tables of marble. --Sandys.
2. A thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal, or other
material, on which anything is cut, traced, written, or
painted; a tablet; pl. a memorandum book. ``The names . .
. written on his tables.'' --Chaucer.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of
stone like unto the first, and I will write upon
these tables the words that were in the first
tables, which thou brakest. --Ex. xxxiv.
1.
And stand there with your tables to glean The golden
sentences. --Beau. & Fl.
3. Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a
drawing, or the like, may be produced. ``Painted in a
table plain.'' --Spenser.
The opposite walls are painted by Rubens, which,
with that other of the Infanta taking leave of Don
Philip, is a most incomparable table. --Evelyn.
St. Antony has a table that hangs up to him from a
poor peasant. --Addison.
4. 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. Specifically:
(a) (Bibliog.) A view of the contents of a work; a
statement of the principal topics discussed; an index;
a syllabus; a synopsis; as, a table of contents.
(b) (Chem.) A list of substances and their properties;
especially, a list of the elementary substances with
their atomic weights, densities, symbols, etc.
2. To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a
picture. [Obs.]
Tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation.
--Bacon.
3. To supply with food; to feed. [Obs.] --Milton.
4. (Carp.) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by
alternate scores or projections from the middle, to
prevent slipping; to scarf.
5. To lay or place on a table, as money. --Carlyle.
6. 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.
7. To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against
some one.
8. (Naut.) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of
(sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached
to the boltrope.