Tabellion: m. A Notarie publicke, or Scriuener, allowed by authoritie to ingrosse, and register priuate contracts, and obligations: Therein differing from Notaire (as in the word Notaire) more generally, then that (as in the opinion of Nicot) the Notaire does the Office of both in Cities, and Townes of respect, and the Tabellion onely in Boroughes, and Villages: And yet they are very often confounded, and taken for one, and the same (sayes Ragueau;) And their Offices are (sayes another) at this day made, or growne one.
Tabellionnage. Th' Office of a Tabellion; the place wherein hee ingrosses, and registers priuate contracts. Droict de Tabellionnage. as vnder Droict; also, a halfepenie in the pound for contracts of the sale of land, &c, exceeding the value of 15 l. Tour. due to the King within the Libertie of Sens. Tabellionné: m. The Office, Function, or Art, of a Tabellion. Tabellionné: m. ée: f. Drawne at large, ingroßed, registred by a Tabellion. Tabellionner. A Tabellion to draw, ingrosse, or record a deed.
Tabernacle: m. A Tabernacle, pauillion, tent, or hall; also, a shed, shelter, or little shop of boords; also, a gaudie Cabinet, Box, or Chariot to set, keepe, or carrie Images in.
Tabian. laict Tab. The milke of Tabia, a place in Italie, verie healthfull for such as are in a consumption: ¶Rab. Tabide: com. Consuming, wasting, languishing, pining away; also, welneere all melted, or wasted.
Tabifié: m. ée: f. Wasted, consumed, rotted, putrified; also, infected, poisoned, corrupted.
Tabifier. To wast, consume, putrifie, rot; infect, poison, marre, corrupt.
Tablage: m. A tabling or boording; also, a table, or great boord.
Tablature d'un Luc. The bellie of a Lute.
Table: f. A table; a long and square boord; a table, or boord to eat on; the table, or counter of Bankers, and Marchants; the Table, or Index of a booke; also, a Chesse-boord, or that whereon we play at Tables; also, a (square) plate of mettall; also, food, fare, diet, victualls, meat and drinke; In Law, the Fief, demaine, whole Seigniorie, or intire bodie of estate in land, belonging to a Lord, &c; whence, Mettre, & vnir, en sa Table, &c.
La table d'un Luc. The bellie of a Lute.
Tables rabbatuës. The Queenes Game, Doublets.
Table ronde. Open house-keeping; also, a merrie meeting, or feasting together of friends, and allies; also, a little round boord wheron the Pastissiers carrie their Pies, and Tarts from place to place.
Diamant en table. A square table Diamond.
Il est à table & n'ose manger. Either he is a coward and dare not, or a pinch-crust and will not, fall to the meat thats before him.
Revenir à la table de l'aisné. The part of a younger brother, or of his issue (deceased without naturall heirs) to reuert, or escheat vnto the eldest.
Tenir table. To banquet, or feast it euerie day in his house.
Tenir bonne table. To keepe a good table, to fare well.
Tenir longue table. To sit long at meat.
Table d'Abbé; ou de Prelat: Pro. A plentifull, or well-furnished boord.
Table sans sel bouche sans salive: Prov. An vnlear-*
- ned discourse is (commonly) as vaine, as meate without salt's vnsauorie. Table vaut escole notable: Prov. Table-discourse is an excellent Schoolemaister. De grosse table à l'estable: Prov. Excessiue house-*keeping makes Gentlemen turne Groomes. Ronde table oste le debat: Prov. Round tables take away contention; one being as neere his meat as another.
Tableau: m. A picture; a table whereon things be painted, or written; a writing table; memoriall, register.
Tablée: f. A table-full of.
Tables. Playing Tables; Looke Table. Tablette: f. A little table, or boord; also, a childes horne-booke. Tablettes. Writing tables; also, the scales of a Hawks legs; also, Losenges, ministred in Physick.
Tablier: m. A Chesse-boord, or Table to play on; also, an Apron; also, a long, and large table-cloath; also, a tabler, or boorder. Tablier de Notaire. A Scriueners shop, or booth.
Tabouler. To make a great noise or troublesome dinne; or, to knocke lowd and fast, like a Cooper in the hooping of caske.
Taborlan: m. A mightie Prince, or Potentate; or, a name of state, and dignitie (perhaps from Tamber-*laine.)
Tabour: m. A Drumme; also, a Tabor. Batre le tabour à coups d'osselets. To play at Dice on a Drummes head.
Tabourasse: f. A Drumme, or Tabor.
Tabourder. To play on a Drumme, or Tabor; (& thence) also, to rap, or knocke.
Tabourdeur: m. A Taborer, or Drummer.
Tabourement: m. A Drumming; also, a rapping, knocking, or thumping (as on a Drumme) at a doore, window, or other thing of wood; also, the noise, or dinne thats made thereby.
Tabourer. To drumme; also, to rap, knocke, or thumpe (as on a Drumme) at a woodden window, doore, &c; also, to strike, or bumpe on the Posteriorums.
Tabouret: m. A pinne-pillow, or pinne-case; also, a cushion stoole, or little low stoole for a woman or child to sit on; also, the flat base, or foot of a piller, resembling such a stoole; also, the hearbe Toywort, Caseweed, Pick-*purse, Shepheards-purse.
Taboureur: m. A Drummer, or Taborer; also, a thumper, bumper, knocker; whoremunger.
Tabourin: m. A Tabor; also, a Drumme; and a little Drumme; also, the Drumme, or Drummer belonging to a Companie of footmen; also, a Timpanie in the bellie.
Tabourin de Basque. A kind of small, and shallow Drumme, or Tabor, open at the one end, and hauing the barrell stucke full of small bells, and other gingling knacks of lattin, &c, which, together with the Taborers fingers on the other end thats couered, make (in the ears of children and sillie people) a prettie noyse.
Tabourin de guerre. Is properly, the Drumme.
Tabourin des oreilles. A certaine skinne, or filme whitin the eares; thin, the more easily to receiue sounds and aire from without; yet strong, thereby to resist outward annoyances; and drie, the better to resound.
Chausses à tabourin. Ce sont chausses enflées de bourre, & grosses comme vn tambour.
Prendre le lievre au tabourin. To performe impossible matters; See Lievre.
Ce qui est venu par la fleute s'en retourne avec le tabourin: Pro. Looke vnder Fleute.
