[ F. ablet, ablette, a dim. fr. LL. abula, for albula, dim. of albus white. Cf. Abele. ] (Zool.) A small fresh-water fish (Leuciscus alburnus); the bleak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. blet, blette, a., soft from over ripeness. ] A form of decay in fruit which is overripe. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bletted p. pr. & vb. n. Bletting. ] To decay internally when overripe; -- said of fruit. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The supposed faculty of perceiving subterraneous springs and currents by sensation; -- so called from one Bleton, of France. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A form of decay seen in fleshy, overripe fruit. Lindley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bulb, n.+ -let. ] (Bot.) A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some aërial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. of cable; cf. F. câblot. ] A little cable less than ten inches in circumference. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Camlet. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Babylonian & Assyrian Antiq.) 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. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ In sense 3, OF. doublet; in sense 4, F. doublet, dim. of double double. See Double, a. ] 1. Two of the same kind; a pair; a couple. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Print.) A word or words unintentionally doubled or set up a second time. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A close-fitting garment for men, covering the body from the neck to the waist or a little below. It was worn in Western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Lapidary Work) A counterfeit gem, composed of two pieces of crystal, with a layer of color between them, and thus giving the appearance of a naturally colored gem. Also, a piece of paste or glass covered by a veneer of real stone. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Opt.) An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct. W. H. Wollaston. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. pl. (See No. 1.) Two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost; as, to throw doublets. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. pl. [ Cf. Pr. doblier, dobler draughtboard. ] A game somewhat like backgammon. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. One of two or more words in the same language derived by different courses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The bar, or crosspiece, of a carriage, to which the singletrees are attached. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. See Doublet, 6 and 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ From Dribble. ] A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets. [ 1913 Webster ]

When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Made of giblets; as, a giblet pie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ OE. gibelet, OF. gibelet game: cf. F. gibelotte stewed rabbit. Cf. Gibbier. ] The inmeats, or edible viscera (heart, gizzard, liver, etc.), of poultry. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. [ F. gobelet, LL. gobeletus, gobellus; cf. L. cupa tub, cask. See Cupel. ] A kind of cup or drinking vessel having a foot or standard, but without a handle. [ 1913 Webster ]

We love not loaded boards and goblets crowned. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small herb. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Written also hobbetyhoy, hobbarddehoy, hobbedehoy, hobdehoy. ] [ Cf. Prob. E. hobbledygee with a limping movement; also F. hobereau, a country squire, E. hobby, and OF. hoi to-day; perh. the orig. sense was, an upstart of to-day. ] A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow . [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

All the men, boys, and hobbledehoys attached to the farm. Dickens. . [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A game played with a pocketknife, the object of which is to throw the knife in any of a vairety of ways (such as over the back), or from various positions, and have it stick in the ground or another surface. Also called mumble-the-peg and mumble peg. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sublet; p. pr. & vb. n. Subletting. ] To underlet; to lease, as when a lessee leases to another person. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. tablette, dim. of table. See Table. ] 1. A small table or flat surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence, a small picture; a miniature. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. A kind of pocket memorandum book. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Pharm.) A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Triblet. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. } [ F. triboulet. ] 1. A goldsmith's tool used in making rings. Ainsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A steel cylinder round which metal is drawn in the process of forming tubes. Tomlinson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Blacksmithing) A tapering mandrel. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ After W. H. Wollaston, English physicist. ] (Optics) A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion. Under "wollastonite" the eponymous inventor is described as a chemist. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]