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Tale
TALE, n. [See Tell.] A story; a narrative; the rehearsal of a series of events or adventures, commonly some trifling incidents; or a fictitious narrative; as the tale of a tub. Marmontel's tales; idle tales. Luke 24.
We spend our years as a tale that is told Psa 90.
1. Oral relation.
2. Reckoning; account set down. Exo 5.
In packing, they keep a just tale of the number.
3. Number reckoned.
--The ignorant who measure by tale, not be weight.
4. A telling; information; disclosure of any thing secret.
Birds--are aptest by their voice to tell tales what they find.
In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood. Ezek 22.
5. In law, a count or declaration. [Tale, in this sense, is obsolete.]
6. In commerce, a weight for gold and silver in China and other parts of the E. Indies; also, a money of account. In China, each tale is 10 maces=100 candareens-1000 cash.
TALE, v.i. To tell stories.
tale appears in definitions for these words:
Account Application Artless Blab Buzzer Canter Carry-tale Carve Carver Class Cleve Common Comparatively Condemn Conspicuous Corn-crake Cry Cultivate Cultivation Distinction Distinguished Drollery Egotist Eminence Entitle Equal Estimate Extraordinary Fable Feign Freeze Genius Gifted Gossip Gossiping Half-heard Harrow Heady Incompetence Inferiority Likely Long Master-piece Mediocrity Misapply Misemploy Misimprove Native Novel Owe Part Pest Place Plaice Poet Poetic Pretty Pride Prostitute Prostitution Proud Purpose Put Qualification Quiddity Rake Remnant Responsible Rock Romance Romancing Romantic Sea-man Secret Signalize Slander Slanderous Sleeve Spell State Story Sufficient Superficial Superior Sycophancy Sycophant Sycophantic Sycophantize Sycophantry Take Tale Talebearer Talent Talented Tales Taleteller Tattle Tattler Tattling Tell-tale Toy Trust Turn Unequal Unprofitable Unqualified Unvarnished Venality Whispering Wrap Wrong
Account Application Artless Blab Buzzer Canter Carry-tale Carve Carver Class Cleve Common Comparatively Condemn Conspicuous Corn-crake Cry Cultivate Cultivation Distinction Distinguished Drollery Egotist Eminence Entitle Equal Estimate Extraordinary Fable Feign Freeze Genius Gifted Gossip Gossiping Half-heard Harrow Heady Incompetence Inferiority Likely Long Master-piece Mediocrity Misapply Misemploy Misimprove Native Novel Owe Part Pest Place Plaice Poet Poetic Pretty Pride Prostitute Prostitution Proud Purpose Put Qualification Quiddity Rake Remnant Responsible Rock Romance Romancing Romantic Sea-man Secret Signalize Slander Slanderous Sleeve Spell State Story Sufficient Superficial Superior Sycophancy Sycophant Sycophantic Sycophantize Sycophantry Take Tale Talebearer Talent Talented Tales Taleteller Tattle Tattler Tattling Tell-tale Toy Trust Turn Unequal Unprofitable Unqualified Unvarnished Venality Whispering Wrap Wrong
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