tale
- Noun. (obsolete) Number.
- Noun. (obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.
- Noun. (obsolete) Speech; language.
- Noun. (obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
- Noun. (legal, obsolete) A count; declaration.
- Noun. (rare, or) Numbering; enumeration; reckoning; account; count.
- Noun. (rare, or) A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
- Noun. (rare, or) A report of any matter; a relation; a version.
- Noun. An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.
- Noun. a type of story.
- Noun. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
- Verb. (dialectal, or) To speak; discourse; tell tales.
- Verb. (dialectal, chiefly) To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.
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