TALES
Etymology 1
Noun
tales
plural of tale
Etymology 2
Noun
tales (plural tales)
(law) A person available to fill vacancies in a jury.
(law) A book or register of people available to fill jury vacancies.
(law) A writ to summon people to court to fill vacancies in a jury.
Anagrams
• Astle, ETLAs, Slate, Teals, Tesla, astel, laste, lates, least, leats, salet, setal, slate, stale, steal, stela, taels, teals, telas, tesla
Source: Wiktionary
Ta"les, n. Etym: [L., pl. of talis such (persons).] (Law) (a) pl.
Definition: Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the
courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors
regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter. Blount.
Blackstone. (b) syntactically sing.
Definition: The writ by which such persons are summoned. Tales book, a book
containing the names of such as are admitted of the tales. Blount.
Craig.
– Tales de circumstantibus Etym: [L.], such, or the like, from
those standing about.
TALE
Tale, n.
Definition: See Tael.
Tale, n. Etym: [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.
We spend our years as a tale that is told. Ps. xc. 9.
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.
The ignorant, . . . who measure by tale, and not by weight. Hooker.
And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthornn in the dale.
Milton.
In packing, they keep a just tale of the number. Carew.
3. (Law)
Definition: A count or declaration. [Obs.] To tell tale of, to make account
of. [Obs.]
Therefore little tale hath he told Of any dream, so holy was his
heart. Chaucer.
Syn.
– Anecdote; story; fable; incident; memoir; relation; account;
legend; narrative.
Tale, v. i.
Definition: To tell stories. [Obs.] Chaucer. Gower.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition