·add. ·- A clay tablet on which was inscribed a contract, for safe keeping. Such tablets were inclosed in an outer case (often called the envelope), on which was inscribed a duplicate of the inscription on the inclosed tablet.
·noun A small table or flat surface. II. Tablet ·noun A kind of pocket memorandum book. III. Table...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Probably a string of beads worn round the neck (Ex. 35:22; Num. 31:50). In Isa. 3:20 the Hebrew word...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
See trapezoid. Also, a flat coping stone placed at the top of the revêtement of the escarp, to pro...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·adj Contracted; as, a contract verb. II. Contract ·adj Contracted; affianced; betrothed. III. Con...
·add. ·- The sweating system. II. Contract system ·add. ·- The system of employing convicts by sell...
One not advertised. ...
A printed form of agreement with every passenger in a passenger-ship, prescribed by the legislature....
The agreement for the letting to freight the whole or any part of a vessel for one or more voyages; ...