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noun

Tael n. (Written also tale) 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.

Tale n. See Tael.

Tale n.

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." "In such manner rime is Dante's tale." "We spend our years as a tale that is told."

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." "And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthorn in the dale." "In packing, they keep a just tale of the number."

(Law) 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."

Synonyms: Anecdote; story; fable; incident; memoir; relation; account; legend; narrative.

verb

Tale v. i. To tell stories. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tale" Quotes from Famous Books

... tale told him once by a survivor of a trading ship Judd the Kite had destroyed. It wasn't a nice tale. The Kite, so the report ran, was diabolically ingenious with a long peeling knife, and could improvise with it for hours. Friday pursued the tack of ...

— Hawk Carse • Anthony Gilmore

... his keeping he might recover wealth and position and by quite honest means. At his suggestion she then assumed a variety of attitudes; she stood as Hebe, offering nectar to the gods—as Nausicae, listening to the tale of Odysseus—and as Sappho, singing to her lyre. The girl was delighted at all this, and when Medius, who kept close to her, tried to persuade her to perform in a similar manner in the magical representations at the house of Posidonius, before a select company ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... old tale to-night, telling it with a little more verve even than usual. She ended at ...

— Light O' The Morning • L. T. Meade

... for the Chinese Empire. In this editorial Clemens endeavored to pay something of his debt to the noble statesman. He reviewed Burlingame's astonishing career—the career which had closed at forty-seven, and read like a fairy-tale-and he dwelt lovingly on his hero's nobility of character. At the close ...

— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine

... see that ship out there on our port-quarter, sir?" hailed one of the men from the forecastle, interrupting Master Freddy in his tale. ...

— The Pirate Slaver - A Story of the West African Coast • Harry Collingwood

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