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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Tablature

/tăb'-ləch-ẽr/ · Tab·la·ture · IPA /ˈtæblət͡ʃɜ/
01 n. A painting on a wall or ceiling; a single piece comprehended in one view, and formed according to one design; hence, a picture in general.
  1. 1.
    A painting on a wall or ceiling; a single piece comprehended in one view, and formed according to one design; hence, a picture in general.(Paint.)
  2. 2.
    An ancient mode of indicating musical sounds by letters and other signs instead of by notes.(Mus.)
    “The chimes of bells are so rarely managed that I went up to that of Sir Nicholas, where I found who played all sorts of compositions from the tablature before him as if he had fingered an organ.” Evelyn.
  3. 3.
    Division into plates or tables with intervening spaces; as, the tablature of the cranial bones.(Anat.)