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One who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc., and makes mischief. Spies and talebearers, encouraged by her father, did their best to inflame her resentment. Macaulay.

Telling tales officiously.

A kind of quadrangular piece of cloth put on by the Jews when repeating prayers in the synagogues. Crabb.

Full of stories. [R.] Thomson.

A genus of Australian birds which includes the brush turkey. See Brush turkey.

Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minæ or 6,000 drachmæ. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver money, its value was £243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180. Rowing vessel whose burden does not exceed five hundred talents. Jowett (Thucid.).…

Furnished with talents; possessing skill or talent; mentally gifted. Abp. Abbot (1663).

jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter. Blount. Blackstone. (b) syntactically sing.

A person called to make up a deficiency in the number of jurors when a tales is awarded. Wharton.

One who tells tales or stories, especially in a mischievous or officious manner; a talebearer; a telltale; a tattler.

In a way of a tale or story.

See Tagliacotian.

Retaliation. [Obs.] Just heav'n this taliation did decree. Beaumont.

Retaliation. [R.] Holinshed.

The deformity called clubfoot. See Clubfoot.

A beautiful tropical palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), a native of Ceylon and the Malabar coast. It has a trunk sixty or seventy feet high, bearing a crown of gigantic fan-shaped leaves which are used as umbrellas and as fans in ceremonial processions, and, when cut into strips, as a substitute for writing paper.…

A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order t…

Of or pertaining to a talisman; having the properties of a talisman, or preservative against evils by occult influence; magical.

ourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you. Shak.

Given to much talking.