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Tell
TELL, v.t. pret. and pp. told. [L. telum; L.appello and peal, L. pello.]
1. To utter; to express in words; to communicate to others.
I will not eat till I have told my errand. Gen 24.
2. To relate; to narrate; to rehearse particulars; as, to tell a story. Gen 37.
And not a man appears to tell their fate.
3. To teach; to inform; to make known; to show by words. Tell us the way.
Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? Gen 12.
4. To discover; to disclose; to betray.
They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. Num 14.
5. To count; to number.
Look now towards heaven, and tell the stars. Gen 15.
6. To relate in confession; to confess or acknowledge.
Tell me now what thou hast done. Josh 7.
7. To publish.
Tell it not in Gath. 2 Sam 1.
8. To unfold; to interpret; to explain. Ezek 24.
9. To make excuses.
Tush, never tell me. [Not elegant.]
10. To make known.
Our feelings tell us how long they ought to have submitted.
11. To discover; to find; to discern. The colors are so blended that I cannot tell where one ends and the other begins.
Tell, though equivalent in some respects to speak and say, has not always the same application. We say, to tell this, that or what, to tell a story, to tell a word, to tell truth or falsehood, to tell a number, to tell the reasons, to tell something or nothing; but we never say, to tell a speech, discourse or oration, or to tell an argument or a lesson. It is much used in commands. Tell me the whole story; tell me all you know, or all that was said. Tell has frequently the sense of narrate; which speak and say have not.
TELL, v.i. To give an account; to make report.
--That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works. Psa 36.
To tell of
To tell on - to inform. You must not disobey; I will tell of you if you do. This is a common popular use of the word. To tell on, is quite vulgar as well as improper.
tell appears in definitions for these words:
Affirm Aim All-telling Angel Announce Avernian Babble Babbler Babbling Bead Before Belie Blab Blabber Blabbing Brag Buzzer Cackler Cadmian Chance Chirographist Chiromancer Chronicle Confabulate Corn-crake Count Credit Cunningman Darkness Declare Denounce Detailing Dictate Dilate Disclose Disclosing Disclosure Divulge Dote Echo Enumerate Enumeration Enunciate Even-tide Fable Faculty Fakir Fall Falsify Fancy Fashion Fate Fault Fibber Fibbing Flatterer Foretell Fortunetell Fortuneteller Fortunetelling Give Gossip Gross Hide His Hoodman Horologe Identify Idiot Indicate Inform Informing Keep L Legend Lying Marry Mealy-mouthed Mealy-mouthedness Messiah Metal Mislay Misrelating Mistell Mistold Narrate Narrating Narration Narrative Nay News-monger Number Or Palmister Palmistry Pass Pell Perfection Plaice Poorness Pray Predict Prenunciation Procede Profanation Prompt Prophecy Publish Read Recital Recite Reciting Reckon Recount Rehearsal Rehearsing Relate Relater Relating Relation Report Retail Return Right Romance Romancing Rumor Rumorer Rumoring Say Saying Secret Servant Silvan Sing Spell Spurling-line Stand Step Storify Story Story-teller Suppress Sycophantize Sylvanite Tale Talebearer Taleteller Talk Tarry Tattle Tattler Tattling Teach Tell Tell-tale Teller Tellinite Tellurate Tellureted Tellurium Thing Told Tooth Tush Undergone Unfold Verbatim Veridical Verse Wages Wait Ward What Whisperer Whispering Who Wondrous Writer Yield You
Affirm Aim All-telling Angel Announce Avernian Babble Babbler Babbling Bead Before Belie Blab Blabber Blabbing Brag Buzzer Cackler Cadmian Chance Chirographist Chiromancer Chronicle Confabulate Corn-crake Count Credit Cunningman Darkness Declare Denounce Detailing Dictate Dilate Disclose Disclosing Disclosure Divulge Dote Echo Enumerate Enumeration Enunciate Even-tide Fable Faculty Fakir Fall Falsify Fancy Fashion Fate Fault Fibber Fibbing Flatterer Foretell Fortunetell Fortuneteller Fortunetelling Give Gossip Gross Hide His Hoodman Horologe Identify Idiot Indicate Inform Informing Keep L Legend Lying Marry Mealy-mouthed Mealy-mouthedness Messiah Metal Mislay Misrelating Mistell Mistold Narrate Narrating Narration Narrative Nay News-monger Number Or Palmister Palmistry Pass Pell Perfection Plaice Poorness Pray Predict Prenunciation Procede Profanation Prompt Prophecy Publish Read Recital Recite Reciting Reckon Recount Rehearsal Rehearsing Relate Relater Relating Relation Report Retail Return Right Romance Romancing Rumor Rumorer Rumoring Say Saying Secret Servant Silvan Sing Spell Spurling-line Stand Step Storify Story Story-teller Suppress Sycophantize Sylvanite Tale Talebearer Taleteller Talk Tarry Tattle Tattler Tattling Teach Tell Tell-tale Teller Tellinite Tellurate Tellureted Tellurium Thing Told Tooth Tush Undergone Unfold Verbatim Veridical Verse Wages Wait Ward What Whisperer Whispering Who Wondrous Writer Yield You
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