\Tab"u*la\, n.; pl. {Tabul[ae]}. [L.]
1. A table; a tablet.
2. (Zo["o]l.) One of the transverse plants found in the
   calicles of certain corals and hydroids.
{Tabula rasa}[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.