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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Tale \Tale\ (t[=a]l), n.
See {Tael}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Tale \Tale\, n. [AS. talu number, speech, narrative; akin to D.
taal speech, language, G. zahl number, OHG. zala, Icel. tal,
tala, number, speech, Sw. tal, Dan. tal number, tale speech,
Goth. talzjan to instruct. Cf. {Tell}, v. t., {Toll} a tax,
also {Talk}, v. i.]
1. That which is told; an oral relation or recital; any
rehearsal of what has occured; narrative; discourse;
statement; history; story. "The tale of Troy divine."
--Milton. "In such manner rime is Dante's tale."
--Chaucer.
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We spend our years as a tale that is told. --Ps. xc.
9.
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2. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an
enumeration; a count, in distinction from measure or
weight; a number reckoned or stated.
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The ignorant, . . . who measure by tale, and not by
weight. --Hooker.
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And every shepherd tells his tale,
Under the hawthorn in the dale. --Milton.
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In packing, they keep a just tale of the number.
--Carew.
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3. (Law) A count or declaration. [Obs.]
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{To tell tale of}, to make account of. [Obs.]
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Therefore little tale hath he told
Of any dream, so holy was his heart. --Chaucer.
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Syn: Anecdote; story; fable; incident; memoir; relation;
account; legend; narrative.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Tale \Tale\ (t[=a]l), v. i.
To tell stories. [Obs.] --Chaucer. --Gower.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Tael \Tael\, n. [Malay ta[i^]l, a certain weight, probably fr.
Hind. tola, Skr. tul[=a] a balance, weight, tul to weigh.]
A denomination of money, in China, worth nearly six shillings
sterling, or about a dollar and forty cents; also, a weight
of one ounce and a third. [Written also {tale}.]
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tale
n 1: a message that tells the particulars of an act or
occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or
drama or cinema or as a radio or television program; "his
narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain
adults as well as children" [syn: {narrative}, {narration},
{story}, {tale}]
2: a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how
can I stop my child from telling stories?" [syn: {fib},
{story}, {tale}, {tarradiddle}, {taradiddle}]
From Danish-English Freedict dictionary [fd-dan-eng]:
tale
speech
speak; talk
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