tale

  1. Noun.  (obsolete) Number.
  2. Noun.  (obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.
  3. Noun.  (obsolete) Speech; language.
  4. Noun.  (obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
  5. Noun.  (legal, obsolete) A count; declaration.
  6. Noun.  (rare, or) Numbering; enumeration; reckoning; account; count.
  7. Noun.  (rare, or) A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
  8. Noun.  (rare, or) A report of any matter; a relation; a version.
  9. 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.
  10. Noun.  a type of story.
  11. Noun.  A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
  12. Verb.  (dialectal, or) To speak; discourse; tell tales.
  13. Verb.  (dialectal, chiefly) To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.

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