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‖n. pl. [ NL. See Acetabuliferous. ] (Zool.) The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. acetablum a little cup + -ferous. ] Furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. acetabulum + -form. ] (Bot.) Shaped like a shallow cup; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., a little saucer for vinegar, fr. acetum vinegar, fr. acere to be sour. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Rom. Antiq.) A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) (a) The bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone. (b) The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body. (c) A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals. (d) The large posterior sucker of the leeches. (e) One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cogitabundus. ] Full of thought; thoughtful. [ R. ] Leigh Hunt. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. constabularius an equerry. See Constable. ] Of or pertaining to constables; consisting of constables. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The collective body of constables in any town, district, or country. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A constabulary. [ Obs. ] Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. stabulatio, fr. stabulari to stable cattle, fr. stabulum. See Stable, n. ] 1. The act of stabling or housing beasts. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place for lodging beasts; a stable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & v. See Taboo. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Tabulae [ L. ] 1. A table; a tablet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tabula rasa ety>[ L. ], a smoothed tablet; hence, figuratively, the mind in its earliest state, before receiving impressions from without; -- a term used by Hobbes, Locke, and others, in maintaining a theory opposed to the doctrine of innate ideas. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. tabularis, fr. tabula a board, table. See Table. ] Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the uses of the word). Specifically: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

(a) Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nodules . . . that are tabular and plated. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) Set in squares. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

(d) Arranged in a schedule; as, tabular statistics. [ 1913 Webster ]

(e) Derived from, or computed by, the use of tables; as, tabular right ascension. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tabular difference (Math.), the difference between two consecutive numbers in a table, sometimes printed in its proper place in the table. --
Tabular spar (Min.), wollastonite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of tabularizing, or the state of being tabularized; formation into tables; tabulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tabularized p. pr. & vb. n. Tabularizing ] To tabulate. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. tabulatus floored. ] (Zool.) An artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are examples. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tabulated p. pr. & vb. n. Tabulating. ] [ L. tabula a table. See Tabular. ] 1. To form into a table or tables; to reduce to tables or synopses. [ 1913 Webster ]

A philosophy is not worth the having, unless its results may be tabulated, and put in figures. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To shape with a flat surface. [ 1913 Webster ]